CVE-2007-1659

Published: 7 November 2007

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.

Status

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-547-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1659
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian