CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-11958
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-04-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
re2c 1.3 has a heap-based buffer overflow in Scanner::fill in parse/scanner.cc via a long lexeme.
Affected configurations
• re2c re2c 1.3
• canonical ubuntu linux 19.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 20.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/21/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/04/19/re2c-heap-overflow-in-scannerfill-scanner-cc/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/skvadrik/re2c/commit/c4603ba5ce229db83a2a4fb93e6d4b4e3ec3776a Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-28 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4338-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4338-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/19/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/21/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/04/19/re2c-heap-overflow-in-scannerfill-scanner-cc/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/skvadrik/re2c/commit/c4603ba5ce229db83a2a4fb93e6d4b4e3ec3776a Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-28 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4338-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4338-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/19/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory