CVE-2025-8735 (GCVE-0-2025-8735)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-08 18:32 – Updated: 2025-10-28 00:43
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Summary
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in GNU cflow up to 1.8. Affected by this vulnerability is the function yylex of the file c.c of the component Lexer. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
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