Microsoft security update for CVE-2019-6293
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products3
- azl3 flex 2.6.4-7 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 flex 2.6.4-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 flex 2.6.4-6 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2.6.4-6 |
| — | Security Update | 2.6.4-7 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2019-6293
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
An issue was discovered in the function mark_beginning_as_normal in nfa.c in flex 2.6.4. There is a stack exhaustion problem caused by the mark_beginning_as_normal function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving lots of '*' characters. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2019-6293, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).