CVE-2007-1662

Published Nov 7, 2007

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description: Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly involving forward references.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "4523717D-521B-48D3-9664-07489B886917",
            "versionEndIncluding": "7.3"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References