CVE-2007-1660
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 4.1%EU EUVD
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.0 does not properly calculate sizes for unspecified "multiple forms of character class", which triggers a buffer overflow that allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 4.1% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-1654)
- Published
- November 7, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-1654 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- pcre / pcre
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27538(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27543(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27547(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27554(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27598(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27697(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27741(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27773(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27776(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27862(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27965(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28136(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28406(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28414(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28658(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28714(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28720(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29785(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30106
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30155
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30219
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31124
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018895
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-488.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1399(Patch)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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