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.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion via the mark_beginning_as_normal
function in nfa.c
file. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
Notes
This vulnerability is not likely to be exploited.
In addition, the protection against exploitation is not to run flex setuid
, which is already the default.