CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-1662

Published: Nov 07, 2007 | Modified: Oct 16, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly involving forward references.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pcre Pcre * 7.3 (including)
Pcre3 Ubuntu dapper *
Pcre3 Ubuntu edgy *
Pcre3 Ubuntu feisty *
Pcre3 Ubuntu gutsy *
Pcre3 Ubuntu upstream *

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