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ghsa-4c6r-jqvh-f3hm

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 03:04

Modified

2022-05-17 03:04

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Heap-based buffer overflow in the yy_get_next_buffer function in Flex before 2.6.1 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving num_to_read.

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CVE-2016-6354 (GCVE-0-2016-6354)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-09-21 14:00

Modified

2024-08-06 01:29

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the yy_get_next_buffer function in Flex before 2.6.1 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving num_to_read.

References

URL

Tags

	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/8	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/26/12	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://github.com/westes/flex/commit/a5cbe929ac3255d371e698f62dc256afe7006466	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3653	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-31	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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