CVE-2006-7230 Denial of service in n/a
Crafted regular expressions can cause a crash in the PCRE library, leading to denial of service for applications using it.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2006-7230?
CVE-2006-7230 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 15 Nov 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.0 does not properly calculate the amount of memory needed for a compiled regular expression pattern when the (1) -x or (2) -i UTF-8 options change within the pattern, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (PCRE or glibc crash) via crafted regular expressions.
Weakness: CWE-189
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-7230?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pcre Pcre.
How do I fix CVE-2006-7230?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-7230 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-7230 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-7230, GHSA-64q5-vm73-jhjp.