Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 7, 2007· Updated Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2007-4768
CVE-2007-4768
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a singleton Unicode sequence in a character class in a regex pattern, which is incorrectly optimized.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
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