Security Advisory
CVE-2017-16231
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
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
Published Date
March 21, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory