fkie_cve-2007-1659
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2007-11-07 23:46
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via regex patterns containing unmatched "\Q\E" sequences with orphan "\E" codes.
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