CVE-2006-0459
N/A
Published: March 29, 2006 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFlex
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 5%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (14)
x_refsource_CONFIRMProduct
Source: [email protected]
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flex/flex-2.5.33.tar.bz2?downloadThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/19071Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/19126Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/19228Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/19424Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Source: [email protected]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/570Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTRelease Notes
Source: [email protected]
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20060223020346.GA11231%40tabitha.home.tldz.org&forum_name=flex-announceVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-07.xmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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