CVE-2005-2491
pcre pcre: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Integer overflow in pcre_compile.c in Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) before 6.2, as used in multiple products such as Python, Ethereal, and PHP, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via quantifier values in regular expressions, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.
- EPSS
- 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- pcre:pcre
References
- ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.10/SCOSA-2006.10.txt
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00786522
- http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html