CVE-2006-7225

CVE Details

Release Date:	2007-12-03
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash) via a regular expression that involves a malformed POSIX character class, as demonstrated via an invalid character after a [[ sequence.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (pcre)	ELSA-2007-1068	2007-12-04
Oracle Linux version 5 (pcre)	ELSA-2007-1059	2007-11-30