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CVE-2007-4771

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2008-01-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the doInterval function in regexcmp.cpp in libicu in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3.8.1 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a regular expression that writes a large amount of data to the backtracking stack. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected Platforms

Icu-Project International Components For Unicode

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References