Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : flex vulnerability (USN-260-1)

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...

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...