CVE-2006-7230 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-7230 at MITRE

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.0 does not properly calculate the amount of memory needed for a compiled regular expression pattern when the (1) -x or (2) -i UTF-8 options change within the pattern, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (PCRE or glibc crash) via crafted regular expressions.

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	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 325921 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 344010 [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 05:23:13 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:19:05 2023