CVE-2007-6067

critical

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in 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 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted "complex" regular expression with doubly-nested states.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00469.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00397.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/568-1/

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10235

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1768

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39498

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1071/references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0109

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0061

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27163

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486407/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485864/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0040.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0038.html

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:004

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1463

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1460

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200559-1

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=565440&group_id=10894

http://securitytracker.com/id?1019157

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-15.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/29638

http://secunia.com/advisories/28698

http://secunia.com/advisories/28679

http://secunia.com/advisories/28479

http://secunia.com/advisories/28477

http://secunia.com/advisories/28464

http://secunia.com/advisories/28455

http://secunia.com/advisories/28454

http://secunia.com/advisories/28438

http://secunia.com/advisories/28437

http://secunia.com/advisories/28376

http://secunia.com/advisories/28359

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0122.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01420154

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-01-09

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical