CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-7226

Published: Dec 03, 2007 | Modified: Oct 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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).

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Enterprise_linux_desktop Redhat 4.0 4.0

References