CVE-2005-4872

Name	CVE-2005-4872
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
pcre3 (PTS)	buster	2:8.39-12	fixed
	bullseye	2:8.39-13	fixed
	bookworm, sid, trixie	2:8.39-15	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
pcre3	source	sarge	4.5+7.4-1
pcre3	source	(unstable)	6.2-1

http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt states fixed in 6.2