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.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2007-11-07T20:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T13:06:25.938Z
Reserved: 2007-03-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-1659
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2007-11-07T23:46:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2007-1659
 Redhat
                        Redhat