CVE-2020-14150

bison: allows attackers to cause a denial of service

Published Jun 15, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
GNU Bison before 3.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash). NOTE: there is a risk only if Bison is used with untrusted input, and an observed bug happens to cause unsafe behavior with a specific compiler/architecture. The bug reports were intended to show that a crash may occur in Bison itself, not that a crash may occur in code that is generated by Bison.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-6307 GNU Bison before 3.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash). NOTE: there is a risk only if Bison is used with untrusted input, and an observed bug happens to cause unsafe behavior with a specific compiler/architecture. The bug reports were intended to show that a crash may occur in Bison itself, not that a crash may occur in code that is generated by Bison.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00119}

epss

{'score': 0.00086}

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 12:39 PM
Reserved
Jun 15, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 15, 2020, 5:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:54 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Apr 5, 2020, 12:00 AM