CVE-2007-6067 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-6067
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/39498 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-568-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200559-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1 ST 1019157 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA28437 Secunia Advisory: SA28438 Secunia Advisory: SA28376 Secunia Advisory: SA28359 Secunia Advisory: SA28454 Secunia Advisory: SA28464 Secunia Advisory: SA28477 Secunia Advisory: SA28479 Secunia Advisory: SA28455 Secunia Advisory: SA28679 Secunia Advisory: SA28698 Secunia Advisory: SA29638 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0040.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0038.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:004 HP http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01420154 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-15.xml FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1460 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1463 CONFIRM http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1810264&group_id=10894&atid=110894 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=565440&group_id=10894 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/486407/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/485864/100/0/threaded BID 27163

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