CVE-2017-16231

Publication date 21 March 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

** DISPUTED ** In PCRE 8.41, after compiling, a pcretest load test PoC produces a crash overflow in the function match() in pcre_exec.c because of a self-recursive call. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this report, noting that there are options that can be used to limit the amount of stack that is used.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
pcre3	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Ignored
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored
	17.04 zesty	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

possibly https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2047 which upstream thinks isn't an issue marking this as not-affected since this was disputed

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H