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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2006-03-29T23:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:34:14.696Z

Reserved: 2006-01-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-0459

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-03-29T23:02:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:06:30.743

Link: CVE-2006-0459

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