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CVE-2006-7226

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Published: Dec 3, 2007Modified: Apr 23, 2026

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4.3
Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Exploitability: 8.6 / Impact: 2.9
Source: NVD

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).

Affected (4)

2 products
Enterprise Linux Desktop
Enterprise Linux
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 4.0
Configuration B
3 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Redhat
Version 4.0
Version 4.0
Version 4.0

References (24)

Source: secalert@redhat.com
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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