CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-7230

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2007-11-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-11-15
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
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.0 does not properly calculate the amount of memory needed for a compiled regular expression pattern when the (1) -x or (2) -i UTF-8 options change within the pattern, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (PCRE or glibc crash) via crafted regular expressions.

Affected configurations

• pcre pcre (<= 6.9)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References