CVE-2019-6293

MEDIUM

flex 2.6.4 - Denial of Service via Recursive mark_beginning_as_normal Calls

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/westes/flex/issues/414

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0159
EPSS Percentile 72.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (1)
westes/flex 2.6.4
Published Jan 15, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026