MSRC_CVE-2019-6293
Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2019-01-02 00:00 - Updated: 2024-06-30 07:00Summary
An issue was discovered in the function mark_beginning_as_normal in nfa.c in flex 2.6.4. There is a stack exhaustion problem caused by the mark_beginning_as_normal 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.
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