CVE-2007-4767 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-4767 at MITRE

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 does not properly compute the length of (1) a \p sequence, (2) a \P sequence, or (3) a \P{x} sequence, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or crash) or execute arbitrary code.

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]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2007:062, published Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:03:01 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:03 2025