CVE-2007-1662

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly involving forward references.

Date published : 2007-11-07

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html