An issue was discovered in the function mark_beginning_as_normal in nfa.c in flex 2.6.4. There is a stack exhaustion problem caused by the mark_beginning_as_normal function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving lots of '*' characters. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:30:16.991Z

Reserved: 2019-01-14T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2019-6293

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-01-15T00:29:00.523

Modified: 2023-10-06T17:12:21.840

Link: CVE-2019-6293

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-6293 - Bugzilla