CVE-2007-1662 — Pcre vulnerability

8 documents7 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
4.1%
top 11.45%
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 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly involving forward references.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

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.debian.org ↗Patch: www.debian.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-q97c-6vfp-vgp5: Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7↗2022-05-01
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OSV
CVE-2007-1662: 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 < 7.3 unmatched bracket/paren past EoS read issue↗2007-11-05
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Debian
CVE-2007-1662: glib2.0 - Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 reads past the end ...↗2007
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2007-1662: pcre < 7.3 unmatched bracket/paren past EoS read issue↗2007-11-20
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Bugzilla
Multiple PCRE flaws↗2007-09-26
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