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flex: buffer overflow

Package(s):flex CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0459
Created:March 7, 2006 Updated:March 28, 2006
Description: Chris Moore discovered a buffer overflow in a particular class of lexicographical scanners generated by flex. This could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by processing specially crafted user-defined input to an application that uses a flex scanner for parsing.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1020-1 2006-03-28
Gentoo 200603-07 2006-03-10
Ubuntu USN-260-1 2006-03-06
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