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CVE-2007-2026

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.

Published

2007-04-13T18:19:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	amavis	virus_scanner	*	Yes
Application	gentoo	file	4.20	Yes

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/24918 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/25394 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/25544 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/25578 ([email protected])
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu&forum_name=amavis-user ([email protected])
http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt ([email protected])
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071 ([email protected])
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217 ([email protected])
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/24918 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/25394 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/25544 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/25578 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu&forum_name=amavis-user (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)