debian · CVE-2017-16231

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:59:05 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-16231 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (pcre3), 2 status rows across 2 suites (bookworm, bullseye): open 2.

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

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