CVE-2006-7228 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-7228 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 325921 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 344277 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2007:062, published Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2008:004, published Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:23:13 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:19:05 2023