CVE-2008-3196

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-07-08
Bugzilla:
455031: CVE-2008-3196 byacc: Potential out of bounds of allocated stack access

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-3196 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 byacc Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 byacc Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 byacc Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 byacc Will not fix

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