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CVE-2006-7227

Published: Nov 14, 2007 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7227
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/189.html

Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a large number of named subpatterns (name_count) or long subpattern names (max_name_size), which triggers a buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PcrePcre*6.6 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHatpcre-0:4.5-4.el4_5.4*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatpcre-0:6.6-2.el5_1.1*
Pcre3Ubuntudapper*
Pcre3Ubuntuedgy*
Pcre3Ubuntufeisty*
Pcre3Ubuntuupstream*

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