Description (CNA)
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).
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11545
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26727
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-505.htm
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1068.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1059.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28041
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384781
- http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40020
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11545
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26727
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-505.htm
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1068.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1059.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28041
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384781
- http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40020