CVE-2007-1662
EPSS 4.1%
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.
How to fix CVE-2007-1662
To remediate CVE-2007-1662, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/glib2.0—upgrade to 2.14.3-1 or later
- Debian/pcre3—upgrade to 7.3-1 or later
Is CVE-2007-1662 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 4.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.14.3-1
- from 0, < 7.3-1