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Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash) via a regular expression that involves a "malformed POSIX character class", as demonstrated via an invalid character after a [[ sequence.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 3, 2007
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Jan 31, 2023

Severity

Moderate

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2006-7225

GHSA ID

GHSA-jwp9-5mxp-g76g

Source code

No known source code

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