Riskcovery

CVE-2025-8736

GNU cflow Lexer c.c yylex buffer overflow

State
Published
Severity
4.8 Medium
Published
Aug 8, 2025
Updated
Aug 8, 2025
Reserved
Aug 8, 2025

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Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in GNU cflow up to 1.8. Affected by this issue is the function yylex of the file c.c of the component Lexer. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.04.8 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:PVulDB
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:RVulDB
3.05.3 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:RVulDB
2.04.3 MediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:URVulDB

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
cflowGNU
  • 1.0Affected
  • 1.1Affected
  • 1.2Affected
  • 1.3Affected
  • 1.4Affected
  • 1.5Affected
  • 1.6Affected
  • 1.7Affected
  • 1.8Affected

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