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Debian: CVE-2023-2789: cflow -- security update

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 18, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU cflow 1.7. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects the function func_body/parse_variable_declaration of the file parser.c. The manipulation leads to denial of service. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier VDB-229373 was assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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