CVE-2018-21232

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-21232
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-29 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-05-14 12:15:00 UTC
Descriptionre2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-674

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Re2c Re2c All All All All
Application Re2c Re2c All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - re2c: infinite loop MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: re2c: infinite loop MLIST www.openwall.com
overflow-1.re test fails on system with small stack · Issue #219 · skvadrik/re2c · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 691040 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for re2c (b0e1fa2b-9c86-11ed-9296-002b67dfc673)
  • 900868 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for re2c (7337)
  • 907323 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for re2c (7337-1)
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