{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4872","details":"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.","modified":"2026-09-08T06:47:31.803930128Z","published":"2005-12-31T05:00:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2005-4872"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4872"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pcre3","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/pcre3?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.2-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4872.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}