Vulnerability in Pcre
CVE-2006-7227
Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a large number of named subpatterns (name_count) or long subpattern names (max_name_size), which triggers a buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.035 (88.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.035 · newest: 0.035 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/30219 (third-party-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10408 (signature, vdb-entry)
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28658 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/27773 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28406 (third-party-advisory)