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flex: Potential insecure code generation
Background flex is a programming tool used to generate scanners programs which recognize lexical patterns in text. Description Chris Moore discovered a buffer overflow in a special class of lexicographical scanners generated by flex. Only scanners generated by grammars which use either REJECT, or...
USN-260-1: flex vulnerability
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. This flaw particularly affects...
CVE-2005-4592
Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter and bogolexer 0.96.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via words that are longer than the input buffer used by flex...
CVE-2005-4592
Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter and bogolexer 0.96.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via words that are longer than the input buffer used by flex...
CVE-2005-4592
Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter and bogolexer 0.96.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via words that are longer than the input buffer used by flex...
CVE-2000-0210
The lit program in Sun Flex License Manager FlexLM follows symlinks, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files...
CVE-2000-0210
CVE-2000-0210 affects the lit program in Sun Flex License Manager (FlexLM). The vulnerability arises because lit follows symbolic links, allowing a local user to modify arbitrary files on the host. Root cause: improper handling of symlinks in the lit utility. Impact described in sources is local ...
