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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-1659: PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-1659: PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/07/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-libpcre

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