cvelist/2005/4xxx/CVE-2005-4872.json

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                "value": "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."
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                "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html",
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                "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/27773",
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                "name": "http://secunia.com/advisories/27773"
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                "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/27869",
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                "url": "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030",
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                "url": "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11615",
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