Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 does not properly calculate the compiled memory allocation for regular expressions that involve a quantified "subpattern containing a named recursion or subroutine reference," which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash).
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2007-12-03T20:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T20:57:40.671Z
Reserved: 2007-11-13T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-7226

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2007-12-03T20:46:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2006-7226
