Description
GNU Bison before 3.7.1 has a use-after-free in _obstack_free in lib/obstack.c (called from gram_lex) when a '\0' byte is encountered. NOTE: there is a risk only if Bison is used with untrusted input, and the observed bug happens to cause unsafe behavior with a specific compiler/architecture. The bug report was intended to show that a crash may occur in Bison itself, not that a crash may occur in code that is generated by Bison.
Published: 2020-08-25
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-16975 GNU Bison before 3.7.1 has a use-after-free in _obstack_free in lib/obstack.c (called from gram_lex) when a '\0' byte is encountered. NOTE: there is a risk only if Bison is used with untrusted input, and the observed bug happens to cause unsafe behavior with a specific compiler/architecture. The bug report was intended to show that a crash may occur in Bison itself, not that a crash may occur in code that is generated by Bison.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T15:12:08.957Z

Reserved: 2020-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-24240

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-08-25T14:15:16.543

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:14:32.130

Link: CVE-2020-24240

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-07-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-24240 - Bugzilla

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