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.
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976 cve-icon cve-icon
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml cve-icon cve-icon
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http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt cve-icon cve-icon
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3790 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38275 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1738 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1662 cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/547-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1662 cve-icon
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History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-11-07T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T13:06:25.744Z

Reserved: 2007-03-24T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-1662

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-07T23:46:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-16T16:39:57.083

Link: CVE-2007-1662

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-1662 - Bugzilla