CVE-2006-7226

CVE Details

Release Date:2007-12-03

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).

See more information about CVE-2006-7226 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


CVSS v2.0 metrics


NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

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

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (pcre)ELSA-2007-10682007-12-04
Oracle Linux version 5 (pcre)ELSA-2007-10592007-11-30



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