CVE-2007-1660

Published Nov 7, 2007

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description: Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.0 does not properly calculate sizes for unspecified "multiple forms of character class", which triggers a buffer overflow that allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.8
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-119

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "9AF2E20E-2F95-4164-9E9C-FBFD5FEBFC2E",
            "versionEndIncluding": "6.9"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References