Vulnerability CVE-2007-4772

Vulnerability CVE-2007-4772

Published: 2008-01-09 Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:

The regular expression parser in TCL before 8.4.17, as used in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, and 7.4 before 7.4.19, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted regular expression.

Type:

CWE-399

(Resource Management Errors)

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

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
4/10	2.9/10	8/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Low	Single time
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
None	None	Partial

Affected software
Tcl tk -> Tcl tk
TCL -> Tcl/tk
Postgresql -> Postgresql
Debian -> Debian linux
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux

References:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01420154

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00049.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00052.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00054.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00056.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0122.html

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-15.xml

http://securitytracker.com/id?1019157

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=565440&group_id=10894

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1810264&group_id=10894&atid=110894

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200559-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1460

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1463

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:004

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:059

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0038.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0040.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0134.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485864/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486407/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27163

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0061

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0109

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1071/references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39497

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1768

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11569

https://usn.ubuntu.com/568-1/

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00397.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00469.html

Vulnerability CVE-2007-4772

The regular expression parser in TCL before 8.4.17, as used in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, and 7.4 before 7.4.19, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted regular expression.

CWE-399

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

4/10

2.9/10

8/10

Remote

Low

Single time

None

None

Partial

Affected software

References: