CVE-2019-6293

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6293
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-6293.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-6293
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-01-15T00:29:00.523Z
Modified
2025-11-14T09:52:36.253682Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
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Details

An issue was discovered in the function markbeginningasnormal in nfa.c in flex 2.6.4. There is a stack exhaustion problem caused by the markbeginningasnormal 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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/westes/flex

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/westes/flex
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected

Affected versions

Other

flex-2-5-10
flex-2-5-5b
flex-2-5-5c

v2.*

v2.6.0
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.6.3
v2.6.4