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CVE-2006-7226

Published: 3 December 2007

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 does not properly calculate the compiled memory allocation for regular expressions that involve a quantified "subpattern containing a named recursion or subroutine reference," which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash).

Priority

Low

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)