Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-7227

RCE

Title: Pcre RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-7227.

CWE Category CWE-189
Published Date Nov 14, 2007
Modified Date Apr 09, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-7227: Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a large number of named subpatterns (name_count) or long subpattern names (max_name_size), which triggers a buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.

Impacted Vendors

P
perl 1
P
pcre 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27582 http://secunia.com/advisories/27741 http://secunia.com/advisories/27773 http://secunia.com/advisories/27869 http://secunia.com/advisories/28406 http://secunia.com/advisories/28414 http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 http://secunia.com/advisories/28714 http://secunia.com/advisories/28720 http://secunia.com/advisories/30106 http://secunia.com/advisories/30155 http://secunia.com/advisories/30219 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10408 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27582 http://secunia.com/advisories/27741 http://secunia.com/advisories/27773 http://secunia.com/advisories/27869 http://secunia.com/advisories/28406 http://secunia.com/advisories/28414 http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 http://secunia.com/advisories/28714 http://secunia.com/advisories/28720 http://secunia.com/advisories/30106 http://secunia.com/advisories/30155 http://secunia.com/advisories/30219 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10408
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-7227 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.