Vulnerability CVE-2008-3196
Published: 2008-07-16   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
skeleton.c in yacc does not properly handle reduction of a rule with an empty right hand side, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause an out-of-bounds stack access when the yacc stack pointer points to the end of the stack.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
YACC -> YACC 

 References:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121553036432044&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121553004431393&w=2
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