{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "unimportant"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:11",
        "name": "pcre3"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "unimportant"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:12",
        "name": "pcre3"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "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",
  "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16231",
  "modified": "2026-04-28T19:53:38.925948113Z",
  "published": "2019-03-21T15:59:56.217Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16231"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2017-16231"
  ]
}