7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
7.1 High
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.038 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.9%
Chris Moore discovered a buffer overflow in a particular class of
lexicographical scanners generated by flex. This could be exploited to
execute arbitrary code by processing specially crafted user-defined
input to an application that uses a flex scanner for parsing.
This flaw particularly affects gpc, the GNU Pascal Compiler. A
potentially remote attacker could exploit this by tricking an user or
automated system into compiling a specially crafted Pascal source code
file.
Please note that gpc is not officially supported in Ubuntu (it is in
the ‘universe’ component of the archive). However, this affects you if
you use a customized version built from the gcc-3.3 or gcc-3.4 source
package (which is supported).