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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-1662

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-1662

Description:
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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38275

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

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

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

FEDORA

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

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

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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