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Vulnerability CVE-2019-6293
Published: 2019-01-14 Modified: 2019-01-15
| Description: |
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. |
Type:
CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))
CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
4.3/10 |
2.9/10 |
8.6/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Remote |
Medium |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
None |
None |
Partial |
References: |
https://github.com/westes/flex/issues/414
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