Description
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly involving forward references.
Published: 2007-11-07
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 4.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
AI Analysis

Analysis and contextual insights are available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

Additional remediation guidance may be available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1399-1 New pcre3 packages fix arbitrary code execution
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1570-1 New kazehakase packages fix execution of arbitrary code
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-1656 Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly involving forward references.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-547-1 PCRE vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976 cve-icon cve-icon
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 cve-icon cve-icon
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27538 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27543 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27554 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27697 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27741 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28136 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/28714 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28720 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29267 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 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://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-200805-11.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1399 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:211 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483357/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483579/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26346 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3725 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3790 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38275 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1738 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/547-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1662 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00181.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
References

Thu, 22 May 2025 04:30:00 +0000


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T13:06:25.744Z

Reserved: 2007-03-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-1662

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-07T23:46:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2007-1662

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-1662 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses