National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3196
Original release date:07/16/2008
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (07/17/2008)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3196
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [openbsd-cvs] 20080708 Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
External Source: MLIST
Name: [openbsd-cvs] 20080708 CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src