CVE-2007-2026 (GCVE-0-2007-2026)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-04-13 18:00
Modified
2024-08-07 13:23
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/24918
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/25394
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/25544
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/25578
cve@mitre.org http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu&forum_name=amavis-user
cve@mitre.org http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt
cve@mitre.org http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml
cve@mitre.org http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146
cve@mitre.org http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071
cve@mitre.org https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217
cve@mitre.org https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
Show details on NVD website

To clipboard 

{
  "containers": {
    "adp": [
      {
        "providerMetadata": {
          "dateUpdated": "2024-08-07T13:23:49.634Z",
          "orgId": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
          "shortName": "CVE"
        },
        "references": [
          {
            "tags": [
              "x_refsource_CONFIRM",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217"
          },
          {
            "name": "24918",
            "tags": [
              "third-party-advisory",
              "x_refsource_SECUNIA",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/24918"
          },
          {
            "name": "GLSA-200704-13",
            "tags": [
              "vendor-advisory",
              "x_refsource_GENTOO",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml"
          },
          {
            "tags": [
              "x_refsource_MISC",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu\u0026forum_name=amavis-user"
          },
          {
            "tags": [
              "x_refsource_CONFIRM",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311"
          },
          {
            "tags": [
              "x_refsource_CONFIRM",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt"
          },
          {
            "name": "25544",
            "tags": [
              "third-party-advisory",
              "x_refsource_SECUNIA",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/25544"
          },
          {
            "name": "MDKSA-2007:114",
            "tags": [
              "vendor-advisory",
              "x_refsource_MANDRIVA",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114"
          },
          {
            "name": "25578",
            "tags": [
              "third-party-advisory",
              "x_refsource_SECUNIA",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/25578"
          },
          {
            "name": "20070524 FLEA-2007-0022-1: file",
            "tags": [
              "mailing-list",
              "x_refsource_BUGTRAQ",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded"
          },
          {
            "name": "ADV-2007-2071",
            "tags": [
              "vdb-entry",
              "x_refsource_VUPEN",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071"
          },
          {
            "name": "25394",
            "tags": [
              "third-party-advisory",
              "x_refsource_SECUNIA",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/25394"
          },
          {
            "name": "24146",
            "tags": [
              "vdb-entry",
              "x_refsource_BID",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146"
          }
        ],
        "title": "CVE Program Container"
      }
    ],
    "cna": {
      "affected": [
        {
          "product": "n/a",
          "vendor": "n/a",
          "versions": [
            {
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "n/a"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "datePublic": "2007-04-03T00:00:00",
      "descriptions": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "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."
        }
      ],
      "problemTypes": [
        {
          "descriptions": [
            {
              "description": "n/a",
              "lang": "en",
              "type": "text"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "providerMetadata": {
        "dateUpdated": "2018-10-16T14:57:01",
        "orgId": "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca",
        "shortName": "mitre"
      },
      "references": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "x_refsource_CONFIRM"
          ],
          "url": "https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217"
        },
        {
          "name": "24918",
          "tags": [
            "third-party-advisory",
            "x_refsource_SECUNIA"
          ],
          "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/24918"
        },
        {
          "name": "GLSA-200704-13",
          "tags": [
            "vendor-advisory",
            "x_refsource_GENTOO"
          ],
          "url": "http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "x_refsource_MISC"
          ],
          "url": "http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu\u0026forum_name=amavis-user"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "x_refsource_CONFIRM"
          ],
          "url": "https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "x_refsource_CONFIRM"
          ],
          "url": "http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt"
        },
        {
          "name": "25544",
          "tags": [
            "third-party-advisory",
            "x_refsource_SECUNIA"
          ],
          "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/25544"
        },
        {
          "name": "MDKSA-2007:114",
          "tags": [
            "vendor-advisory",
            "x_refsource_MANDRIVA"
          ],
          "url": "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114"
        },
        {
          "name": "25578",
          "tags": [
            "third-party-advisory",
            "x_refsource_SECUNIA"
          ],
          "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/25578"
        },
        {
          "name": "20070524 FLEA-2007-0022-1: file",
          "tags": [
            "mailing-list",
            "x_refsource_BUGTRAQ"
          ],
          "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded"
        },
        {
          "name": "ADV-2007-2071",
          "tags": [
            "vdb-entry",
            "x_refsource_VUPEN"
          ],
          "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071"
        },
        {
          "name": "25394",
          "tags": [
            "third-party-advisory",
            "x_refsource_SECUNIA"
          ],
          "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/25394"
        },
        {
          "name": "24146",
          "tags": [
            "vdb-entry",
            "x_refsource_BID"
          ],
          "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146"
        }
      ],
      "x_legacyV4Record": {
        "CVE_data_meta": {
          "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org",
          "ID": "CVE-2007-2026",
          "STATE": "PUBLIC"
        },
        "affects": {
          "vendor": {
            "vendor_data": [
              {
                "product": {
                  "product_data": [
                    {
                      "product_name": "n/a",
                      "version": {
                        "version_data": [
                          {
                            "version_value": "n/a"
                          }
                        ]
                      }
                    }
                  ]
                },
                "vendor_name": "n/a"
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        "data_format": "MITRE",
        "data_type": "CVE",
        "data_version": "4.0",
        "description": {
          "description_data": [
            {
              "lang": "eng",
              "value": "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."
            }
          ]
        },
        "problemtype": {
          "problemtype_data": [
            {
              "description": [
                {
                  "lang": "eng",
                  "value": "n/a"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        "references": {
          "reference_data": [
            {
              "name": "https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217",
              "refsource": "CONFIRM",
              "url": "https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217"
            },
            {
              "name": "24918",
              "refsource": "SECUNIA",
              "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/24918"
            },
            {
              "name": "GLSA-200704-13",
              "refsource": "GENTOO",
              "url": "http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml"
            },
            {
              "name": "http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu\u0026forum_name=amavis-user",
              "refsource": "MISC",
              "url": "http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu\u0026forum_name=amavis-user"
            },
            {
              "name": "https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311",
              "refsource": "CONFIRM",
              "url": "https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311"
            },
            {
              "name": "http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt",
              "refsource": "CONFIRM",
              "url": "http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt"
            },
            {
              "name": "25544",
              "refsource": "SECUNIA",
              "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/25544"
            },
            {
              "name": "MDKSA-2007:114",
              "refsource": "MANDRIVA",
              "url": "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114"
            },
            {
              "name": "25578",
              "refsource": "SECUNIA",
              "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/25578"
            },
            {
              "name": "20070524 FLEA-2007-0022-1: file",
              "refsource": "BUGTRAQ",
              "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded"
            },
            {
              "name": "ADV-2007-2071",
              "refsource": "VUPEN",
              "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071"
            },
            {
              "name": "25394",
              "refsource": "SECUNIA",
              "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/25394"
            },
            {
              "name": "24146",
              "refsource": "BID",
              "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "cveMetadata": {
    "assignerOrgId": "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca",
    "assignerShortName": "mitre",
    "cveId": "CVE-2007-2026",
    "datePublished": "2007-04-13T18:00:00",
    "dateReserved": "2007-04-13T00:00:00",
    "dateUpdated": "2024-08-07T13:23:49.634Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.1",
  "vulnerability-lookup:meta": {
    "nvd": "{\"cve\":{\"id\":\"CVE-2007-2026\",\"sourceIdentifier\":\"cve@mitre.org\",\"published\":\"2007-04-13T18:19:00.000\",\"lastModified\":\"2025-04-09T00:30:58.490\",\"vulnStatus\":\"Deferred\",\"cveTags\":[],\"descriptions\":[{\"lang\":\"en\",\"value\":\"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.\"},{\"lang\":\"es\",\"value\":\"El c\u00f3digo regular de la expresi\u00f3n de gnu en el archivo 4.20 permite a atacantes dependientes del contexto provocar denegaci\u00f3n de servicio (consumo de CPU) a trav\u00e9s de documentos manipulados con un gran n\u00famero de caracteres de avance de l\u00ednea, el cual no es manejado de forma adecuada por las expresiones regulares OS/2 REXX que utilizan las wildcards, como originalmente se informo para AMaViS.\"}],\"metrics\":{\"cvssMetricV2\":[{\"source\":\"nvd@nist.gov\",\"type\":\"Primary\",\"cvssData\":{\"version\":\"2.0\",\"vectorString\":\"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C\",\"baseScore\":7.8,\"accessVector\":\"NETWORK\",\"accessComplexity\":\"LOW\",\"authentication\":\"NONE\",\"confidentialityImpact\":\"NONE\",\"integrityImpact\":\"NONE\",\"availabilityImpact\":\"COMPLETE\"},\"baseSeverity\":\"HIGH\",\"exploitabilityScore\":10.0,\"impactScore\":6.9,\"acInsufInfo\":false,\"obtainAllPrivilege\":false,\"obtainUserPrivilege\":false,\"obtainOtherPrivilege\":false,\"userInteractionRequired\":false}]},\"weaknesses\":[{\"source\":\"nvd@nist.gov\",\"type\":\"Primary\",\"description\":[{\"lang\":\"en\",\"value\":\"NVD-CWE-Other\"}]}],\"configurations\":[{\"nodes\":[{\"operator\":\"OR\",\"negate\":false,\"cpeMatch\":[{\"vulnerable\":true,\"criteria\":\"cpe:2.3:a:amavis:virus_scanner:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*\",\"matchCriteriaId\":\"CCDCFA35-BDEE-4AF2-8213-EB1C467B7BDC\"},{\"vulnerable\":true,\"criteria\":\"cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:file:4.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*\",\"matchCriteriaId\":\"F78600C6-AECC-4B8F-BD32-74C7722CE17D\"}]}]}],\"references\":[{\"url\":\"http://secunia.com/advisories/24918\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"http://secunia.com/advisories/25394\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"http://secunia.com/advisories/25544\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"http://secunia.com/advisories/25578\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu\u0026forum_name=amavis-user\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"http://secunia.com/advisories/24918\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"http://secunia.com/advisories/25394\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"http://secunia.com/advisories/25544\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"http://secunia.com/advisories/25578\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu\u0026forum_name=amavis-user\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"}],\"vendorComments\":[{\"organization\":\"Red Hat\",\"comment\":\"Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of file as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.\",\"lastModified\":\"2007-06-07T00:00:00\"}]}}"
  }
}


Log in or create an account to share your comment.




Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.




Sightings

Author Source Type Date

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or seen somewhere by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability is confirmed from an analyst perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: This vulnerability was exploited and seen by the user reporting the sighting.
  • Patched: This vulnerability was successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.
  • Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expresses doubt about the veracity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.