vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-1587: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 16, 2022
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in the PCRE2 library in the get_recurse_data_length() function of the pcre2_jit_compile.c file. This issue affects recursions in JIT-compiled regular expressions caused by duplicate data transfers.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-pcre2
Title
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