CVE-2006-0459 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Flex
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
4.0%
top 11.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 29
Latest updateMay 1
Description
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.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4