Source: flex Version: 2.6.4-6.2 Severity: normal Tags: security upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/westes/flex/issues/414
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for flex. CVE-2019-6293[0]: | 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. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6293 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6293 [1] https://github.com/westes/flex/issues/414 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
