CVE-2007-1659

Upstream information

CVE-2007-1659 at MITRE

Description

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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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 325921 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 649333 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 649689 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2007:062, published Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SA:2008:004, published Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SR:2007:025, published Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:00:00 +0000

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s)	Source package	State
SLES-10-SP3	nmap	Released
SLES-10-SP4	nmap	Released
SLES_LTSS-10-SP4	nmap	Released