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
Related
Published
2016-09-21T14:25:20.800Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:10:02.212463Z
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 yygetnextbuffer 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 numto_read.

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
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.6.0"
        }
    ]
}

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"
unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]