CVE-2016-3191

Name	CVE-2016-3191
Description	The compile_branch function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE 8.x before 8.39 and pcre2_compile.c in PCRE2 before 10.22 mishandles patterns containing an (*ACCEPT) substring in conjunction with nested parentheses, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, aka ZDI-CAN-3542.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-441-1
Debian Bugs	815920, 815921

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
pcre2 (PTS)	bullseye	10.36-2+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm	10.42-1	fixed
	trixie	10.42-4	fixed
	sid	10.44-2	fixed
pcre3 (PTS)	bullseye	2:8.39-13	fixed
	bookworm	2:8.39-15	fixed
	sid	2:8.39-15.1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin	Debian Bugs
pcre2	source	(unstable)	10.21-1		815920
pcre3	source	squeeze	8.02-1.1+deb6u1	DLA-441-1
pcre3	source	jessie	2:8.35-3.3+deb8u3
pcre3	source	(unstable)	2:8.38-2		815921

Notes

[wheezy] - pcre3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
pcre3: http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1631
pcre2: http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=489
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1791
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311503