CVE-2007-1662

EPSS 4.1%

Published: 11/7/2007Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-1662

Description

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.

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-2007-1662