CVE-2006-7228 Information

Description

Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that involves large (1) min (2) max or (3) duplength values that cause an incorrect length calculation and trigger a buffer overflow a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-7227. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224 but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.

Reference

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