CVE-2018-21232 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags.

Published: 2020-04-29

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:re2c:re2c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-13750	re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00101.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/14/4
https://github.com/skvadrik/re2c/issues/219
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-21232
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-21232
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/27/2

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Re2c Re2c

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-04-29T13:36:31.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T12:26:39.556Z

Reserved: 2020-04-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-21232

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-29T14:15:14.417

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:03:14.603

Link: CVE-2018-21232

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-09-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-21232 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-674

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