CPANSA-Perl6-Pugs-2006-7230-libpcre: Perl6-Pugs vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2007-11-15T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2007-11-15T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability 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.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-7230

Vulnerability 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.

Weakness CWE-189 : Numeric Errors

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Perl6-Pugs greater than or equal 6.0.12 and less than or equal 6.2.9
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P 4.3 Medium

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Thu Nov 15 00:00:00 2007 First release

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