CVE-2007-2026 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the GNU regular expression code, specifically affecting products like AMaViS and Gentoo's file and virus_scanner components. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by submitting a crafted document containing numerous line feed characters, leading to excessive CPU consumption. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no authentication required, resulting in a complete loss of availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:amavis:virus_scanner:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:file:4.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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