CVE-2006-7225

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2006-7225 · Published 03/12/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-7225 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting pcre (perl).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 75.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pcre perl	`= 0.91= 0.92= 0.93= 0.94= 0.95= 0.96= 0.97= 0.98= 0.99= 1.00= 1.01= 1.02= 1.03= 1.04= 1.05= 1.06= 1.07= 1.08= 1.09= 2.0= 2.01= 2.02= 2.03= 2.04= 2.05= 2.06= 2.07= 2.08= 3.0= 3.1= 3.2= 3.3= 3.4= 3.5= 3.6= 3.7= 3.8= 3.9= 4.0= 4.1= 4.2= 4.3= 4.4= 4.5= 5.0= 6.0= 6.1= 6.2= 6.3= 6.4= 6.5= 6.6`	No fix yet

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash) via a regular expression that involves a "malformed POSIX character class", as demonstrated via an invalid character after a [[ sequence.

References

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