Description
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.
Published: 2019-01-15
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-15858 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.
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00113}

epss

{'score': 0.00124}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:30:16.991Z

Reserved: 2019-01-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-6293

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:46:23.300

Link: CVE-2019-6293

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-6293 - Bugzilla

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