medium5.0
CVE-2007-1662
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allo…
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Pcre | Pcre | through 7.3 |
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://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/27554
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27697
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27741
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28136
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28406
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28414
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28714
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28720
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29267
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30106
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30155
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30219
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml