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)…

published March 29, 2006

CVSS
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EPSS
5%
Percentile
91.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04708 · 91.7th percentile
Published
2006-03-29T23:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 MAR 23:00Z
    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)…
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