CVE-2006-7225

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash) via a regular expression that involves a "malformed POSIX character class", as demonstrated via an invalid character after a [[ sequence.

References

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384761

http://secunia.com/advisories/28041

http://secunia.com/advisories/28658

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10985

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-505.htm

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1059.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1068.html

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2