CVE-2007-1660

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.0 does not properly calculate sizes for unspecified "multiple forms of character class", which triggers a buffer overflow that allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/547-1/

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10562

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1738

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38273

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315881

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1234/references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3790

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3725

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26346

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490917/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483579/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483357/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0546.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1065.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1063.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0968.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0967.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:213

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:212

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:211

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1399

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-488.htm

http://securitytracker.com/id?1018895

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/31124

http://secunia.com/advisories/30219

http://secunia.com/advisories/30155

http://secunia.com/advisories/30106

http://secunia.com/advisories/29785

http://secunia.com/advisories/29420

http://secunia.com/advisories/28720

http://secunia.com/advisories/28714

http://secunia.com/advisories/28658

http://secunia.com/advisories/28414

http://secunia.com/advisories/28406

http://secunia.com/advisories/28136

http://secunia.com/advisories/27965

http://secunia.com/advisories/27862

http://secunia.com/advisories/27776

http://secunia.com/advisories/27773

http://secunia.com/advisories/27741

http://secunia.com/advisories/27697

http://secunia.com/advisories/27598

http://secunia.com/advisories/27554

http://secunia.com/advisories/27547

http://secunia.com/advisories/27543

http://secunia.com/advisories/27538

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.html

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3