CVE-2007-1662
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
89.1%
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.
Affected configurations
References
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976
docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.html
secunia.com/advisories/27538
secunia.com/advisories/27543
secunia.com/advisories/27554
secunia.com/advisories/27697
secunia.com/advisories/27741
secunia.com/advisories/28136
secunia.com/advisories/28406
secunia.com/advisories/28414
secunia.com/advisories/28714
secunia.com/advisories/28720
secunia.com/advisories/29267
secunia.com/advisories/29420
secunia.com/advisories/30106
secunia.com/advisories/30155
secunia.com/advisories/30219
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml
www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1399
www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:211
www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483357/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483579/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/26346
www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3725
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3790
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38275
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1738
usn.ubuntu.com/547-1/
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00181.html
Related
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
89.1%