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Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 does not properly calculate the compiled memory allocation for regular expressions that involve a quantified "subpattern containing a named recursion or subroutine reference" which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash).

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11545

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 does not properly calculate the compiled memory allocation for regular expressions that involve a quantified "subpattern containing a named recursion or subroutine reference" which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash).