CVE-2006-7226
EPSS 1.7%
Description
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).
How to fix CVE-2006-7226
To remediate CVE-2006-7226, 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-2006-7226 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.14.3-1
- from 0, < 6.7-1