PT-2008-4613 · At&T · Yacc

Otto Moerbeek · Published 2008-07-16 · Updated 2012-11-27 · CVE-2008-3196

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: yacc (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue arises from the improper handling of reduction of a rule with an empty right-hand side in skeleton.c, part of yacc. This allows context-dependent attackers to cause an out-of-bounds stack access when the yacc stack pointer points to the end of the stack.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3196

Affected Products

Yacc

References · 8

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3196 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-3196 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3196 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3196 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31073 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2151/references · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121553036432044&w=2 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121553004431393&w=2 · Note