Vulnerability in Yacc

CVE-2008-3196

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.

EPSS: 0.014 (70.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Yacc
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References