Buffer Overflow Affecting skvadrik/re2c package, versions [,2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.43% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SKVADRIKRE2C-2365896
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Apr 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Apr 2020

CVE-2018-21232  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade skvadrik/re2c to version 2.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1