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.

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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6293

An issue was discovered in the function markbeginningasnormal in nfa.c in flex 2.6.4. There is a stack exhaustion problem caused by the markbeginningasnormal function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving lots of '' characters. Remote attackers could leverage this...