Upstream information

CVE-2007-1662 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 325921 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 649333 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 pcre Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 pcre Analysis
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 pcre Analysis
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 pcre2 Analysis
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL pcre Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL pcre2 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 pcre Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 pcre2 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 pcre Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 pcre2 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 pcre Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 pcre2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP5 pcre Analysis

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:52:16 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 15:25:42 2025