{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2007-11-13T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "pcre miscalculation of memory requirements for repeated subpattern containing a named recursion or subroutine reference",
    "id" : "384781",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384781"
  },
  "details" : [ "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)." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Ludwig Nussel for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2007-11-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2007:1068",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "pcre-0:4.5-4.el4_6.6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2007-11-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2007:1059",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "pcre-0:6.6-2.el5_1.7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-7226\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7226" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2006-7226",
  "csaw" : false
}