CVE-2019-6293 -- flexID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1900009 | Date: (C)2019-02-28 (M)2023-12-20 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: unix |
An issue was discovered in the function mark_beginning_as_normal in nfa.cin 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.
Platform: |
Ubuntu 16.04 |
Ubuntu 18.10 |
Ubuntu 14.04 |
Ubuntu 18.04 |