Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7...
Vulnerability Description
Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that involves large (1) min, (2) max, or (3) duplength values that cause an incorrect length calculation and trigger a buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-7227. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383371
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30219
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27776
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000005.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28050
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0546.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27773
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28406
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490917/100/0/threaded
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29032
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1065.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31124
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29085
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-505.htm
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1077.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488457/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29785
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1076.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1068.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0637
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1059.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1234/references
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28041
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-10.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28027
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27741
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10810
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:012
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html
- http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30155
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1063.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28720
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27582
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976
- http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28414
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30106
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28714
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