CVE-2008-3196

critical

Description

skeleton.c in yacc does not properly handle reduction of a rule with an empty right hand side, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause an out-of-bounds stack access when the yacc stack pointer points to the end of the stack.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2151/references

http://secunia.com/advisories/31073

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121553036432044&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121553004431393&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-07-16

Updated: 2012-11-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical