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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.24% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-PCRE3-345486
  • published7 Nov 2007
  • disclosed7 Nov 2007

Introduced: 7 Nov 2007

CVE-2007-1659  (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 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via regex patterns containing unmatched "\Q\E" sequences with orphan "\E" codes.

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