CVE-2007-4767 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-4767
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Description: Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 does not properly compute the length of (1) a \p sequence, (2) a \P sequence, or (3) a \P{x} sequence, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or crash) or execute arbitrary code.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38277 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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