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CVE-2006-7225

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2007-12-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash) via a regular expression that involves a "malformed POSIX character class", as demonstrated via an invalid character after a [[ sequence.

Affected Platforms

Perl Pcre

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References