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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-16231: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-16231: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/17/2019
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

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

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-pcre
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-tiff

References

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