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GLSA-202408-16 : re2c: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 205303

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202408-16 (re2c: Denial of Service)

 Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All re2c users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-util/re2c-2.0

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202408-16

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719872

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 205303

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202408-16.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 8/9/2024

Updated: 8/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-21232

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:re2c

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-21232