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cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

part: a version: 6.1 update: *

VendorPcre (c96197c6-de56-5934-93d0-fa914c0595fc)
ProductPcre (64f36098-5157-54ce-af33-7a8a5c7bd1ed)
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NotesImported from NVD CPE 2.0 feed

PURL mappings

PURLSourceLast updated
pkg:cpan/pcre purl2cpe 2026-06-01 10:11:36.472464
pkg:github/luvit/pcre purl2cpe 2026-06-01 10:11:36.472465
pkg:gitlab/redhat/pcre purl2cpe 2026-06-01 10:11:36.472466
pkg:rpm/fedora/pcre purl2cpe 2026-06-01 10:11:36.472468
pkg:sourceforge/pcre purl2cpe 2026-06-01 10:11:36.472469

Vulnerability references

IdentifiercpeApplicabilitySubmitteddb.gcve.eu detailsRationale
CVE:CVE-2005-2491 vulnerable 2026-06-08 04:48:29.473966 Details available
Integer overflow in pcre_compile.c in Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) before 6.2, as used in multiple products such as Python, Ethereal, and PHP, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via quantifier values in regular expressions, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Published: 2005-08-22T04:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2024-08-07T22:30:01.424Z
Reference links
Imported from gcve-enriched-dumps CVE data

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