vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-11164: Uncontrolled Recursion

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 11, 2017
Added
May 8, 2019
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

In PCRE 8.41, the OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c allows stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) when processing a crafted regular expression.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-pcre
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