CVE-2006-7225
EPSS 1.3%
Description
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash) via a regular expression that involves a "malformed POSIX character class", as demonstrated via an invalid character after a [[ sequence.
How to fix CVE-2006-7225
To remediate CVE-2006-7225, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/glib2.0—upgrade to 2.14.3-1 or later
- Debian/pcre3—upgrade to 6.7-1 or later
Is CVE-2006-7225 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.14.3-1
- from 0, < 6.7-1