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CVE-2007-1662

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2007-11-07 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly involving forward references.

Affected Platforms

Pcre Pcre

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References