CVE-2005-2491 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-2491 at MITRE

Description

Integer overflow in pcre_compile.c in Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) before 6.2, as used in multiple products such as Python, Ethereal, and PHP, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via quantifier values in regular expressions, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 106209 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 112651 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 115570 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE], 118279 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 325921 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2005:048, published Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2005:049, published Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2005:051, published Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2005:052, published Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:43:36 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Aug 10 17:09:45 2024