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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Advisories
    | Source | ID | Title | 
|---|---|---|
  Debian DSA | 
                DSA-1020-1 | New flex packages fix insecure code generation | 
  EUVD | 
                EUVD-2006-0466 | 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. | 
  Ubuntu USN | 
                USN-260-1 | flex vulnerability | 
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T16:34:14.696Z
Reserved: 2006-01-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-0459
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-03-29T23:02:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2006-0459
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 Debian DSA
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