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Debian: CVE-2020-11958: re2c -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 21, 2020
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

re2c 1.3 has a heap-based buffer overflow in Scanner::fill in parse/scanner.cc via a long lexeme.

Solution

debian-upgrade-re2c
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