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CVE-2006-7228

Date: November 14, 2007

Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that involves large (1) min, (2) max, or (3) duplength values that cause an incorrect length calculation and trigger a buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-7227. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.

Severity Score

5.6

Related Resources (54)

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488457/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28050

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490917/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1065.html

Url: http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28406

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30219

Url: http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10810

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1234/references

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200802-10.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28720

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29032

Url: http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7228

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-7228

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28414

Url: http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000005.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28658

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29785

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383371

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1063.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1077.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0637

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27582

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29085

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31124

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30155

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1068.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:012

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-7228

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1076.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27773

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27776

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28027

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1059.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28041

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30106

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0546.html

Url: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976

Url: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-505.htm

Url: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28714

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27741

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-7228

Severity Score

5.6

Weakness Type (CWE)

Numeric Errors

CWE-189

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.6
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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