CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-7228

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2007-11-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that involves large (1) min, (2) max, or (3) duplength values that cause an incorrect length calculation and trigger a buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-7227. 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