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Entered | Topic |
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2007-11-06 | pcre -- arbitrary code execution |
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Type | Candidate |
Name | CVE-2007-1662 |
Phase | Assigned(20070324) |
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.
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