CVE-2006-7228: Pcre

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that involves large (1) min, (2) max, or (3) duplength values that cause an incorrect length calculation and trigger a buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-7227. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.

Affected products

• Pcre Pcre: up to and including 6.6

Published 2007-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.