| Name | CVE-2007-1659 |
| Description | Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via regex patterns containing unmatched "\Q\E" sequences with orphan "\E" codes. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1399-1, DSA-1570-1, DTSA-77-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| glib2.0 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.42.1-1+deb8u7 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.50.3-2+deb9u3 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.50.3-2+deb9u6 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.58.3-2+deb10u6 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.66.8-1+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.66.8-1+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.74.6-2+deb12u4 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 2.74.6-2+deb12u2 | fixed |
| trixie | 2.82.2-2 | fixed |
| sid | 2.82.2-3 | fixed |
| pcre3 (PTS) | jessie | 2:8.35-3.3+deb8u4 | fixed |
| stretch | 2:8.39-3 | fixed |
| buster | 2:8.39-12 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2:8.39-13 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:8.39-15 | fixed |
| sid | 2:8.39-15.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
glib only embeds pcre in the udeb, no attack vector