CVE catalog
CVE-2005-4872
pcre3: CVE-2005-4872
- Severity
- Medium
- Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 2.32% · Oct 25, 2026
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.2 does not properly count the number of named capturing subpatterns, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a regular expression with a large number of named subpatterns, which triggers a buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | pcre3 | bookworm | 2:8.39-15 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | pcre3 | source | bookworm | 6.2-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [libpcre16-3]Fixed
Source package: [pcre3]
Details (2)
2:8.39-15· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
2:8.39-15· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
- [libpcre3]Fixed
Source package: [pcre3]
Details (2)
2:8.39-15· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
2:8.39-15· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
- [libpcre32-3]Fixed
Source package: [pcre3]
Details (2)
2:8.39-15· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
2:8.39-15· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
- [libpcre3-dbg]Fixed
Source package: [pcre3]
Details (2)
2:8.39-15· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
2:8.39-15· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
- [libpcre3-dev]Fixed
Source package: [pcre3]
Details (2)
2:8.39-15· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
2:8.39-15· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
- [libpcrecpp0v5]Fixed
Source package: [pcre3]
Details (2)
2:8.39-15· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
2:8.39-15· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
- [pcregrep]Fixed
Source package: [pcre3]
Details (2)
2:8.39-15· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
2:8.39-15· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
6.2-1dsa · pcre3 · debian · bookworm; dsa · pcre3 · debian · 12
Observed: