CVE-2006-7228
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.
- EPSS
- 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-189
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- pcre:pcre
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000005.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html
- http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html