CVE-2007-1662

Published: Nov 7, 2007Modified: Apr 23, 2026

5.0

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

Description

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 (1)

Products: Pcre: Pcre

Pcre

1 product

Pcre

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Pcre Pcre	Up to 7.3

References (84)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/27538

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/27543

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/27554

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/27697

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/27741

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/28136

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/28406

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/28414

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/28714

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/28720

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/29267

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/29420

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/30106

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/30155

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/30219

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1399

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:211

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483357/100/0/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483579/100/0/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26346

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

US Government Resource

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3725

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3790

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38275

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1738

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://usn.ubuntu.com/547-1/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00181.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976