CVE-2006-0459
Published · Updated
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 4.7%
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 products
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http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flex/flex-2.5.33.tar.bz2?downloadhttp://secunia.com/advisories/19071http://secunia.com/advisories/19126http://secunia.com/advisories/19228http://secunia.com/advisories/19424http://securityreason.com/securityalert/570https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24995http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20060223020346.GA11231%40tabitha.home.tldz.org&forum_name=flex-announcehttps://usn.ubuntu.com/260-1/http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-07.xmlhttp://www.osvdb.org/23440http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16896