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.
References
Link Resource
https://github.com/westes/flex/issues/414 Exploit Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-10-03T16:19:27

Updated: 2022-10-03T16:19:27

Reserved: 2022-10-03T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2019-6293

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-01-15T00:29:00.523

Modified: 2023-10-06T17:12:21.840


Link: CVE-2019-6293

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