CVE-2007-2026
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 2.1%EU EUVD
The gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted document with a large number of line feed characters, which is not well handled by OS/2 REXX regular expressions that use wildcards, as originally reported for AMaViS.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- EPSS score
- 2.1% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-2021)
- Published
- April 13, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-2021 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- amavis / virus scanner
- gentoo / file
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24918
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25394
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25544
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25578
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu&forum_name=amavis-user
- http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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