CVE-2006-7227

NameCVE-2006-7227
DescriptionInteger overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a large number of named subpatterns (name_count) or long subpattern names (max_name_size), which triggers a buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1570-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
pcre3 (PTS)jessie2:8.35-3.3+deb8u4fixed
stretch2:8.39-3fixed
buster2:8.39-12fixed
bullseye2:8.39-13fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm2:8.39-15fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
kazehakasesourceetch0.4.2-1etch1DSA-1570-1
kazehakasesource(unstable)0.5.2-1
pcre3sourcesarge4.5+7.4-1
pcre3source(unstable)6.2-1

Notes

http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt states fixed in 6.2

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