CVE-2016-6354

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6354
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6354.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6354
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (6)
SUSE (5)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2016-09-21T14:25:20Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:48:28Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Heap-based buffer overflow in the yy_get_next_buffer function in Flex before 2.6.1 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving num_to_read.

Database specific
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "debian:debian_linux"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/westes/flex

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/westes/flex
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
Fixed
Database specific
Show details
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:westes:flex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "2.6.0"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
flex-2-5-10
flex-2-5-5b
flex-2-5-5c
v2.*
v2.6.0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6354.json"