Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 backtracks too far when matching certain input bytes against some regex patterns in non-UTF-8 mode, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated by the "\X?\d" and "\P{L}?\d" patterns.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T13:06:25.952Z
Reserved: 2007-03-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-1661

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2007-11-07T23:46:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2007-1661
