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CVE-2006-7226

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

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 does not properly calculate the compiled memory allocation for regular expressions that involve a quantified "subpattern containing a named recursion or subroutine reference," which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash).

Affected Platforms

Redhat Enterprise Linux DesktopRedhat Enterprise Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References