CVE-2007-4768

Published: 7 November 2007

Heap-based buffer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a singleton Unicode sequence in a character class in a regex pattern, which is incorrectly optimized.

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	Released (7.4-0ubuntu0.7.04.1)
	gutsy	Released (7.4-0ubuntu0.7.10.1)
	upstream	Released (7.3)

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-547-1
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4768
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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