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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201701-31">
  <title>flex: Potential insecure code generation</title>
  <synopsis>Flex might generate code with a buffer overflow making applications
    using such scanners vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">flex</product>
  <announced>2017-01-11</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-01-11</revised>
  <bug>589820</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-devel/flex" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.6.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.6.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>flex is a programming tool used to generate scanners (programs which
      recognize lexical patterns in text).
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A heap-based buffer overflow in the yy_get_next_buffer function in Flex
      might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or
      possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving num_to_read.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Context-dependent attackers could cause a Denial of Service condition or
      possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All flex users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-devel/flex-2.6.1"
    </code>
    
    <p>Packages which depend on flex may need to be recompiled. Tools such as
      qdepends (included in app-portage/portage-utils) may assist in
      identifying these packages:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --oneshot --ask --verbose $(qdepends -CQ sys-devel/flex | sed
      's/^/=/')
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-6354">CVE-2016-6354</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-09T14:07:40Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-01-11T12:41:44Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>