Unscored severity · published Nov 7, 2007
CVE-2007-1660
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.0 does not properly calculate sizes for unspecified "multiple forms of character class", which triggers a buffer…
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CVSS
4.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.0 does not properly calculate sizes for unspecified "multiple forms of character class", which triggers a buffer overflow that allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.1% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PC
Pcre · Pcre
through 6.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1660
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1660
bugs.gentoo.org
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976
docs.info.apple.com
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
docs.info.apple.com
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
lists.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
lists.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
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