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Mageia: 2021-0300 Moderate: libxyz Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The revised re2c software resolves a significant stack overflow vulnerability, enhancing the protection for Mandriva users.
re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags (CVE-2018-21232)

Summary

re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags (CVE-2018-21232).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26549

- https://github.com/skvadrik/re2c/issues/219

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-21232

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Mageia stack consumption re2c

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/re2c-2.0.3-1.mga7

Publication date: 29 Jun 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0299.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-21232

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Mageia stack consumption re2c

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