CVE-2007-4768
mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.041 · 91 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
Heap-based buffer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a singleton Unicode sequence in a character class in a regex pattern, which is incorrectly optimized.
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affected products (4)
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also known as (2)
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references (120)
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- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976enisa_euvd
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179enisa_euvd
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562enisa_euvd
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-12/msg00007.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27538enisa_euvd
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