CVE-2017-16231: Pcre

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In PCRE 8.41, after compiling, a pcretest load test PoC produces a crash overflow in the function match() in pcre_exec.c because of a self-recursive call. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this report, noting that there are options that can be used to limit the amount of stack that is used

Affected products

• Pcre Pcre: version 8.41 only

Published 2019-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.