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. | ||||||||||||||
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