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CVE-2007-4769

Three vulnearbilities in the regular expression handling libraries can be exploited to cause a backend crash, infinite loops or memory exhaustion. This vulnearbility can be exploited through frontend applications that allow unfiltered regular expressions to be passed in queries.

Version Information

Affected Version Fixed In
8.2 8.2.6
8.1 8.1.11
8.0 8.0.15
7.4 7.4.19

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