CVE-2007-1662 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27538 http://secunia.com/advisories/27543 http://secunia.com/advisories/27554 http://secunia.com/advisories/27697 http://secunia.com/advisories/27741 http://secunia.com/advisories/28136 http://secunia.com/advisories/28406 http://secunia.com/advisories/28414 http://secunia.com/advisories/28714 http://secunia.com/advisories/28720 http://secunia.com/advisories/29267 http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 http://secunia.com/advisories/30106 http://secunia.com/advisories/30155 http://secunia.com/advisories/30219 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.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-200801-19.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1399 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:211 http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483357/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483579/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26346 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3725 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3790 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38275 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1738 https://usn.ubuntu.com/547-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00181.html