CVE-2006-7228

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
9.8
MODERATE
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
2.881

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
(RHSA-2007:1059) Important: pcre security update pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.i386.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2007:1059) Important: pcre security update pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2007:1059) Important: pcre security update pcre-devel-6.6-2.el5_1.7.i386.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2007:1059) Important: pcre security update pcre-devel-6.6-2.el5_1.7.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234