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An issue was discovered in the function mark_beginning_as_normal in nfa.c in flex 2.6.4. There is a stack exhaustion problem caused by the mark_beginn...
CVE-2019-6293
First seen on SecPulse
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6293 flex
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6293 flex
Original description The description as published by the source.
An issue was discovered in the function mark_beginning_as_normal in nfa.c in flex 2.6.4. There is a stack exhaustion problem caused by the mark_beginning_as_normal function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving lots of '*' characters. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service.
References
- report github.com