CVE-2007-4772
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.0EPSS 3.8%EU EUVD
The regular expression parser in TCL before 8.4.17, as used in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, and 7.4 before 7.4.19, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted regular expression.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 3.8% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4753)
- Published
- January 9, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4753 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- postgresql / postgresql
- tcl / tcl/tk
References
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01420154(Broken Link)
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00049.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00052.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00054.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00056.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0122.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28359(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28376(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28437(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28438(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28454(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28455(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28464(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28477(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28479(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28679(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28698(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29070(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29248(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29638(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30535(Third Party Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-15.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019157(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=565440&group_id=10894(Third Party Advisory)
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1810264&group_id=10894&atid=110894(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1(Broken Link)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200559-1(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1460(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1463(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:004(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:059(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0038.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0040.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0134.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485864/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486407/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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