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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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1020-1 New flex packages fix insecure code generation
EUVD 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 Ubuntu USN USN-260-1 flex vulnerability
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

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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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