CVE-2007-1662
N/A
Published: November 7, 2007 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:38 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPcre
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (42)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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