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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-1661
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-1661

Description:
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 backtracks too far when matching certain input bytes against some regex patterns in non-UTF-8 mode, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated by the "\X?\d" and "\P{L}?\d" patterns.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38274

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-547-1

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA29267
  Secunia Advisory: SA28720
  Secunia Advisory: SA28714
  Secunia Advisory: SA28414
  Secunia Advisory: SA28406
  Secunia Advisory: SA28136
  Secunia Advisory: SA27697
  Secunia Advisory: SA27773
  Secunia Advisory: SA27741
  Secunia Advisory: SA27554
  Secunia Advisory: SA27543
  Secunia Advisory: SA27538
  Secunia Advisory: SA29420
  Secunia Advisory: SA30155
  Secunia Advisory: SA30219
  Secunia Advisory: SA30106

MLIST
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.html

MISC
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:211

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml

FEDORA

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570
  http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1399

CONFIRM
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
  http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179

CERT
  http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483579/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483357/100/0/threaded

BID
  26346

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html


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