CVE-2025-8736 (GCVE-0-2025-8736)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-08 19:02 – Updated: 2025-08-08 19:15
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Summary
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in GNU cflow up to 1.8. Affected by this issue is the function yylex of the file c.c of the component Lexer. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
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