CVE-2007-1661

Summary

CVECVE-2007-1661
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-11-07 23:46:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-16 16:39:00 UTC
DescriptionPerl-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.4.11 All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.4.11 All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X Server 10.4.11 All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X Server 10.4.11 All All All
Application Pcre Perl-compatible Regular Expression Library 7.0 All All All
Application Pcre Perl-compatible Regular Expression Library 7.1 All All All
Application Pcre Perl-compatible Regular Expression Library 7.0 All All All
Application Pcre Perl-compatible Regular Expression Library 7.1 All All All
Application Pcre Perl-compatible Regular Expression Library All All All All

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