Description
Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that involves large (1) min, (2) max, or (3) duplength values that cause an incorrect length calculation and trigger a buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-7227. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.
Published: 2007-11-14
Score: 6.8 Medium
EPSS: 2.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1570-1 New kazehakase packages fix execution of arbitrary code
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-7205 Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that involves large (1) min, (2) max, or (3) duplength values that cause an incorrect length calculation and trigger a buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-7227. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000005.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27582 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27741 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27773 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27776 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28027 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28041 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28050 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28406 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28414 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28714 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28720 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29032 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29085 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29785 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30106 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30155 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30219 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31124 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-10.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-505.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:012 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1059.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1063.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1065.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1068.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1076.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1077.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0546.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488457/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490917/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0637 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1234/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383371 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7228 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10810 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-7228 cve-icon
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Pcre Pcre
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:57:40.778Z

Reserved: 2007-11-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-7228

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-14T21:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-7228

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2007-11-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-7228 - Bugzilla

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