CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-7227
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-11-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a large number of named subpatterns (name_count) or long subpattern names (max_name_size), which triggers a buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.
Affected configurations
• pcre pcre (<= 6.6)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html scary.beasts.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27582 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27741 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27773 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27869 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28406 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28414 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28714 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28720 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30106 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30155 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30219 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm support.avaya.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html www.novell.com
- http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt www.pcre.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462 www.securityfocus.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10408 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html scary.beasts.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27582 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27741 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27773 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27869 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28406 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28414 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28714 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28720 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30106 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30155 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30219 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm support.avaya.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html www.novell.com
- http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt www.pcre.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462 www.securityfocus.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10408 oval.cisecurity.org