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CVE-2007-1661

N/A
Published: November 7, 2007 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:38 PM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsmacOSMac OS X ServerPerl Compatible Regular Expression Library

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 backtracks too far when matching certain input bytes against some regex patterns in non-UTF-8 mode, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated by the "\X?\d" and "\P{L}?\d" patterns.

Affected

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

References (44)

x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.html
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/27538
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/27543

CVSS

6.4MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other

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