CVE-2016-6354

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
Related
Published
2016-09-21T14:25:20Z
Modified
2025-04-12T13:43:25.785032Z
Downstream
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

Alpine:v3.2 / flex

Package

Name
flex
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/flex?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.5.39-r1

Affected versions

2.*

2.5.35-r1
2.5.35-r2
2.5.35-r3
2.5.35-r4
2.5.36-r0
2.5.37-r0
2.5.38-r0
2.5.39-r0

Alpine:v3.3 / flex

Package

Name
flex
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/flex?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.5.39-r3

Affected versions

2.*

2.5.35-r1
2.5.35-r2
2.5.35-r3
2.5.35-r4
2.5.36-r0
2.5.37-r0
2.5.38-r0
2.5.39-r0
2.5.39-r1
2.5.39-r2

Alpine:v3.4 / flex

Package

Name
flex
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/flex?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.6.1-r0

Affected versions

2.*

2.5.35-r1
2.5.35-r2
2.5.35-r3
2.5.35-r4
2.5.36-r0
2.5.37-r0
2.5.38-r0
2.5.39-r0
2.5.39-r1
2.5.39-r2
2.6.0-r0

Debian:11 / flex

Package

Name
flex
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/flex?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.6.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / flex

Package

Name
flex
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/flex?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.6.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / flex

Package

Name
flex
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/flex?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.6.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

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
Fixed
a5cbe929ac3255d371e698f62dc256afe7006466
Fixed
a5cbe929ac3255d371e698f62dc256afe7006466

Affected versions

Other

flex-2-5-10
flex-2-5-5b
flex-2-5-5c

v2.*

v2.6.0