PT-2025-32407

CVE-2025-8736

Published

2025-01-01

Updated

2025-08-08

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.3

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU cflow versions up to 1.8

Description A critical vulnerability exists in GNU cflow up to version 1.8. The issue is located in the yylex function within the c.c file of the Lexer component and leads to a buffer overflow. Local access is required for exploitation. The exploit has been publicly disclosed.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Researchers

Xudong Cao

Yuqing Zhang

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (\'Classic Buffer Overflow\')