CVE-2006-7225

Published: 3 December 2007

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
pcre3 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Released (7.4-0ubuntu0.6.06.1)
	edgy	Released (7.4-0ubuntu0.6.10.1)
	feisty	Not vulnerable
	gutsy	Not vulnerable
	upstream	Released (6.7)

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-7225
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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