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CVE-2006-7227

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2007-11-14 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Pcre Pcre

Weakness Type

CWE-189

References