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CVE-2006-0459

Published: 3/29/2006 Last updated: 8/7/2024 Reserved: 1/27/2006

flex.skl in Will Estes and John Millaway Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator (flex) before 2.5.33 does not allocate enough memory for grammars containing (1) REJECT statements or (2) trailing context rules, which causes flex to generate code that contains a buffer overflow that might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (1)

conf-flex

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a <= 4.24.7

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