CVE-2017-11164 - log back

CVE-2017-11164 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity
+ Low
Remote
+ Remote
Type
+ Denial of service
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.
References
+ http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/111
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1470107
Notes
+ Most distros do not consider this a bug, I'm not sure we should care.