fkie_cve-2007-4768
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2007-11-07 23:46
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a singleton Unicode sequence in a character class in a regex pattern, which is incorrectly optimized.
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