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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).
Original Source: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-7226
Learn more about CVE-2006-7226 (Desktop, Enterprise Linux AS, Enterprise Linux ES, Enterprise Linux WS) |