CVE-2007-1662

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly involving forward references.

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References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

• USN-547-1
• PCRE vulnerabilities
• 27 November 2007

Other references

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1662