GNU Bison before 3.7.1 has a use-after-free in _obstack_free in lib/obstack.c (called from gram_lex) when a '\0' byte is encountered. NOTE: there is a risk only if Bison is used with untrusted input, and the observed bug happens to cause unsafe behavior with a specific compiler/architecture. The bug report was intended to show that a crash may occur in Bison itself, not that a crash may occur in code that is generated by Bison.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://github.com/akimd/bison/commit/be95a4fe2951374676efc9454ffee8638faaf68d | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2020-07/msg00051.html | Mailing List Vendor Advisory |
https://github.com/akimd/bison/compare/v3.7...v3.7.1 | Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
Information
Published : 2020-08-25 07:15
Updated : 2020-09-02 07:31
NVD link : CVE-2020-24240
Mitre link : CVE-2020-24240
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CWE
CWE-416
Use After Free
Products Affected
gnu
- bison