Vulnerability CVE-2006-7225
Published: 2007-12-03   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash) via a regular expression that involves a "malformed POSIX character class", as demonstrated via an invalid character after a [[ sequence.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
PERL -> PCRE 

 References:
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1068.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1059.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384761
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26725
http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-505.htm
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
http://secunia.com/advisories/28041
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10985
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
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