CVE-2006-7227 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-7227 at MITRE

Description

Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a large number of named subpatterns (name_count) or long subpattern names (max_name_size), which triggers a buffer overflow. 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 entry: 325921 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

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 05:23:12 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:19:04 2023