CVE-2006-0459
Published: March 29, 2006Last modified: October 7, 2023
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.
Status
| Product | Release | Package | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpaquita Linux | 23 LTS | flex | Not affected (2.6.4-r3) |
| Stream | flex | Not affected (2.6.4-r3) |
References
- http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flex/flex-2.5.33.tar.bz2?download
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19071
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19126
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19228
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19424
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/570
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20060223020346.GA11231%40tabitha.home.tldz.org&forum_name=flex-announce
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-07.xml
- http://www.osvdb.org/23440
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16896
- http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1020
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0770
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24995
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/260-1/