cve-2006-7226
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-12-03 20:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:57
Severity ?
Summary
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).
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28041
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28658
secalert@redhat.comhttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-505.htm
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1059.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1068.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26727
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384781
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40020
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11545
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