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CVE-2006-7226

N/A
Published: December 3, 2007 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorEnterprise LinuxEnterprise Linux Desktop

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

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).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (12)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/28041
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-505.htm
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1059.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1068.html

CVSS

4.3MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other

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