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Bug 624518 (CVE-2017-11164) - dev-libs/libpcre: stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) when processing a crafted regular expression.
Summary: dev-libs/libpcre: stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) when processing a...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2017-11164
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/111
Whiteboard: A3 [upstream cve]
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Reported: 2017-07-11 03:15 UTC by Christopher Díaz Riveros (RETIRED)
Modified: 2017-10-31 15:55 UTC (History)
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Description Christopher Díaz Riveros (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2017-07-11 03:15:20 UTC 
From $URL:

[Suggested 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.

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[Additional Information]
This vulns like CVE-2017-9729.
it is about line 2061 (from the https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/pcre_exec.c?revision=1683&view=markup page) of 
pcre_exec.c:
Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-07-11 08:05:36 UTC 
As stated on oss-sec, I'm not sure this is considered a valid bug.