CVE-2006-7226

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 does not properly calculate the compiled memory allocation for regular expressions that involve a quantified "subpattern containing a named recursion or subroutine reference," which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash).

Date published : 2007-12-03

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26727

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-505.htm