CVE-2007-1661

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 backtracks too far when matching certain input bytes against some regex patterns in non-UTF-8 mode, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated by the "\X?\d" and "\P{L}?\d" patterns.

Affected packages (2)

• Debian/glib2.0from 0, < 2.14.3-1
• Debian/pcre3from 0, < 7.3-1

References (1)

• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-1661