CVE-2006-7226

Name	CVE-2006-7226
Description	Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 does not properly calculate the compiled memory allocation for regular expressions that involve a quantified "subpattern containing a named recursion or subroutine reference," which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash).
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
glib2.0 (PTS)	buster	2.58.3-2+deb10u3	fixed
	buster (security)	2.58.3-2+deb10u4	fixed
	bullseye	2.66.8-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	2.74.6-2	fixed
pcre3 (PTS)	buster	2:8.39-12	fixed
	bullseye	2:8.39-13	fixed
	bookworm, sid	2:8.39-15	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency
glib2.0	source	(unstable)	2.14.3-1	unimportant
pcre3	source	sarge	4.5+7.4-1
pcre3	source	etch	6.7+7.4-2
pcre3	source	(unstable)	6.7-1

glib only embeds pcre in the udeb, no attack vector