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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Aug 8, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 8, 2025

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 8, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 8, 2025
Last updated Aug 8, 2025

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2025-8736

GHSA ID

GHSA-c6jh-8mvm-v593

Source code

No known source code

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