CVE-2006-0459

published 2006-03-29

CVE-2006-0459: 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)…

Priority P3 37 high 7.5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C P I P A P

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.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	flex	>= 0 < 2.5.33-1	2.5.33-1
adobe	flex	>= 0 < 2.5.33-1	2.5.33-1
adobe	flex	>= 0 < 2.5.33-1	2.5.33-1
adobe	flex	>= 0 < 2.5.33-1	2.5.33-1
debian	flex	< flex 2.5.33-1 (bookworm)	flex 2.5.33-1 (bookworm)
westes	flex	<= 2.5.32	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 7.5 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.5 HIGH

vendor_redhat 7.5 HIGH

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