Vulnerability CVE-2007-2026
Published: 2007-04-13   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted document with a large number of line feed characters, which is not well handled by OS/2 REXX regular expressions that use wildcards, as originally reported for AMaViS.

Type:

CWE-Other

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Gentoo -> FILE 
Amavis -> Virus scanner 

 References:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu&forum_name=amavis-user
http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311
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