CVE - CVE-2007-2026

CVE-ID
CVE-2007-2026	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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BID:24146 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146 BUGTRAQ:20070524 FLEA-2007-0022-1: file URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded CONFIRM:http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt CONFIRM:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217 CONFIRM:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311 GENTOO:GLSA-200704-13 URL:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml MANDRIVA:MDKSA-2007:114 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114~~ (Obsolete source) MISC:http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu&forum_name=amavis-user SECUNIA:24918 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/24918 SECUNIA:25394 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/25394 SECUNIA:25544 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/25544 SECUNIA:25578 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/25578 VUPEN:ADV-2007-2071 URL:~~http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071~~ (Obsolete source)
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20070413	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20070413)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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