Resource Exhaustion Affecting flex-devel package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-FLEXDEVEL-1389412
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed9 Jan 2019
Introduced: 9 Jan 2019
CVE-2019-6293 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 flex-devel.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream flex-devel package and not the flex-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.