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CVE-2008-3196

Published: Jul 16, 2008 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3196
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/399.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
YaccYacc**
ByaccUbuntudapper*
ByaccUbuntufeisty*
ByaccUbuntugutsy*
ByaccUbuntuhardy*
ByaccUbuntuupstream*

References

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