Buffer overflow in Pcre

CVE-2007-1659

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.035 (88.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Pcre
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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