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Gentoo GLSA-202408-16: re2c Denial of Service Risk Notification

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2024
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
An issue in re2c could cause a denial of service, categorized with a standard severity level. Update promptly to reduce potential threats.
A vulnerability has been discovered in re2c, which can lead to a denial of service.

Summary

Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo vulnerability re2c

Resolution

All re2c users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-util/re2c-2.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-21232 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-21232

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202408-16
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: re2c: Denial of Service
Date: August 09, 2024
Bugs: #719872
ID: 202408-16

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo vulnerability re2c

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in re2c, which can lead to a denial of service.

Background

re2c is a tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions.

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Affected Packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected ------------- ------------ ------------ dev-util/re2c < 2.0 >= 2.0

Impact

Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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