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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-11958: re2c: Buffer overflow

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-11958: re2c: Buffer overflow

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/21/2020
Created
07/28/2020
Added
07/28/2020
Modified
07/28/2020

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-util-re2c

References

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