CVE-2007-1659 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Pcre

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer8 documents7 sources
Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
5.3%
top 9.92%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Debian Glib2.0Debian Pcre3Pcre
Timeline
PublishedNov 7
Latest updateMay 1

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via regex patterns containing unmatched "\Q\E" sequences with orphan "\E" codes.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/pcre3< glib2.0 2.14.3-1 (bookworm)
▶NVDpcre/pcre7.3
▶debiandebian/glib2.0< glib2.0 2.14.3-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: www.securityfocus.com ↗Patch: www.securityfocus.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h2p6-9f3w-vqw9: Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7↗2022-05-01
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OSV
CVE-2007-1659: Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7↗2007-11-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
PCRE vulnerabilities↗2007-11-27
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Red Hat
pcre regular expression flaws↗2007-11-05
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Debian
CVE-2007-1659: glib2.0 - Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 allows context-depe...↗2007
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2007-1659 pcre regular expression flaws↗2007-10-02
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Bugzilla
Multiple PCRE flaws↗2007-09-26
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