Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201903-4

Severity: Low
Date : 2019-03-03
CVE-ID : CVE-2017-11164
Package : pcre
Type : denial of service
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-351

Summary

The package pcre before version 8.43-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution

Upgrade to 8.43-1.

pacman -Syu “pcre>=8.43-1”

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 8.43.

Workaround

None.

Description

In PCRE 8.41, the OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in
pcre_exec.c allows stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) when
processing a crafted regular expression.

Impact

A remote attacker can crash the process with a crafted regular
expression.

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/111
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1470107
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-11164