CVE-2007-1659

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2007-11-05
Bugzilla:
315871: CVE-2007-1659 pcre regular expression flaws

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2007-1659 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (pcre) RHSA-2007:0967 2007-11-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (pcre) RHSA-2007:1068 2007-11-29

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry for properly disclosing these issues.

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