Vulnerabilities > Pcre > Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library > Medium

DATE	CVE	VULNERABILITY TITLE	RISK
2007-11-07	CVE-2007-1661	Multiple Security vulnerability in PCRE Regular Expression Library Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 backtracks too far when matching certain input bytes against some regex patterns in non-UTF-8 mode, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated by the "\X?\d" and "\P{L}?\d" patterns. network low complexity pcre apple	6.4

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