CVE-2007-6067
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in 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 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted "complex" regular expression with doubly-nested states.
- EPSS
- 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-189
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- postgresql:postgresql
- tcl_tk:tcl_tk
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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0122.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28359