CVE-2006-7226

Medium

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).

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability76. percentile1.6%
ProductRedhat Enterprise Linux Desktop
PublishedDec 3, 2007
First seenDec 3, 2007

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop4.0—
redhat enterprise_linux4.0—

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