{"action":"Upgrade pcre to 7.8-r0 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"7.8-r0","introduced":"0"}],"component":"pcre","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Alpine","ecosystem_qualifier":"Alpine:v3.22","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["7.8-r0"],"id":"tcs_01M5N9A6S83JWWGDFPQR2MCC3M","modified_at":"2026-06-15T18:18:06.771462913Z","published_at":"2019-03-21T15:59:56.217Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-16231","https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-16231"],"severity":{"label":"medium","score":5.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"ALPINE-CVE-2017-16231#Alpine:v3.22/pcre","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-16231"}],"summary":"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"}