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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24918 ↗
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml ↗
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu&forum_name=amavis-user ↗
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311 ↗
- http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25544 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25578 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25394 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146 ↗