CVE-2007-1659

Impact

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via regex patterns containing unmatched "\Q\E" sequences with orphan "\E" codes.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
• http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27538
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27543
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27547
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27554
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27598
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27697
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27741
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27773
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27965
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28041
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28136
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28406
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28414
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28714
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28720
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29267
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29420