CVE-2025-8736
Description
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in GNU cflow up to 1.8. Affected by this issue is the function yylex of the file c.c of the component Lexer. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | affected | |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
| debian | forky | affected | |
| debian | sid | affected | |
| debian | trixie | affected | |
References
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/17lkJ5bSiQZoXLTg3bK-rGBt3kahN9Xse/view?usp=drive_link
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cflow/2025-07/msg00001.html
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.319232
- https://vuldb.com/?id.319232
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.622329
- https://www.gnu.org/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-8736
CWEs
CWE-119 CWE-120
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.