| Name | CVE-2018-21232 |
| Description | re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| re2c (PTS) | stretch | 0.16-2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1.1.1-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye, sid | 2.0.3-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| re2c | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[buster] - re2c <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - re2c <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - re2c <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/skvadrik/re2c/issues/219
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/27/2