7.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2007-2026

Published: 13/04/2007 Updated: 16/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 694
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent malicious users 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.

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