| 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 advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| re2c (PTS) | buster | 1.1.1-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 2.0.3-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm, sid | 3.0-1 | 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) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://github.com/skvadrik/re2c/issues/219
Fixed by: https://github.com/skvadrik/re2c/commit/5fffb1870181d6179118586e21ed2889b8b4abc8
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/27/2
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