Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre3 package, versions <7.3-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.91% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-PCRE3-345478
  • published7 Nov 2007
  • disclosed7 Nov 2007

Introduced: 7 Nov 2007

CVE-2007-1660  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 pcre3 to version 7.3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pcre3 package and not the pcre3 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.0 does not properly calculate sizes for unspecified "multiple forms of character class", which triggers a buffer overflow that allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.

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