Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 does not properly calculate the compiled memory allocation for regular expressions that involve a quantified "subpattern containing a named recursion or subroutine reference," which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash).
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Information
Published : 2007-12-03 12:46
Updated : 2017-10-10 18:31
NVD link : CVE-2006-7226
Mitre link : CVE-2006-7226
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CWE
Products Affected
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- enterprise_linux_desktop
- enterprise_linux