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ghsa-ppj5-c4cc-c277

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-02-06 15:32

Modified

2025-11-05 00:31

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

A flaw was found in Indent. This issue may allow a local user to use a specially-crafted file to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, which can lead to an application crash.

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CVE-2024-0911 (GCVE-0-2024-0911)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-02-06 14:13

Modified

2025-11-04 22:05

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Summary

A flaw was found in indent, a program for formatting C code. This issue may allow an attacker to trick a user into processing a specially crafted file to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, causing the application to crash.

References

URL

Tags

	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0911	vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260399	issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-indent/2024-01/msg00000.html

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
			Version: 2.2.13

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