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CVE-2022-1587 (GCVE-0-2022-1587)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-16 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:10
VLAI
Summary
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in the PCRE2 library in the get_recurse_data_length() function of the pcre2_jit_compile.c file. This issue affects recursions in JIT-compiled regular expressions caused by duplicate data transfers.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a pcre2 Affected: Fixed in pcre2-10.40.
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