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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2007-11-07T20:00:00
Updated: 2018-10-16T14:57:01
Reserved: 2007-03-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-1661
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2007-11-07T23:46:00.000
Modified: 2018-10-16T16:39:52.863
Link: CVE-2007-1661
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