CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-6293

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-01-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-01-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-674

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• westes flex 2.6.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

References