CVE-2006-7227

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-11-07
CWE:
CWE-190
Bugzilla:
383341: CVE-2006-7227 pcre integer overflow

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-7227 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (pcre) RHSA-2007:1052 2007-11-10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (pcre) RHSA-2007:1052 2007-11-10

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