CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-7226

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2007-12-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-12-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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 configurations

• redhat enterprise linux desktop 4.0 • redhat enterprise linux 4.0

References