CVE-2007-1662

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductPcre
PublishedNov 7, 2007
First seenNov 7, 2007

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
pcre pcrev ≤ 7.3—

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CVE-2007-1662 · Pcre · Dark Radar