CVE-2020-24240

MEDIUM

GNU Bison < 3.7.1 - Use-After-Free in obstack.c via Null Byte Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

GNU Bison before 3.7.1 has a use-after-free in _obstack_free in lib/obstack.c (called from gram_lex) when a '\0' byte is encountered. NOTE: there is a risk only if Bison is used with untrusted input, and the observed bug happens to cause unsafe behavior with a specific compiler/architecture. The bug report was intended to show that a crash may occur in Bison itself, not that a crash may occur in code that is generated by Bison.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2020-07/msg00051.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/akimd/bison/compare/v3.7...v3.7.1

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0040
EPSS Percentile 61.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/bison 3.7
Published Aug 25, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026