CVE-2006-7226
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 3, 2007
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 13, 2007
Description
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).
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- MDVSA-2008:030vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2008:004vendor-advisory
- 28658third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11545vdb-entrysignature
- 26727vdb-entry
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-505.htm
- RHSA-2007:1068vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2007:1059vendor-advisory
- 28041third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384781
- http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
- pcre-library-subpattern-dos(40020)vdb-entry
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