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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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
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2019-01-15T00:29:00.523
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:46:23.300
Link: CVE-2019-6293
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