High
Security advisory
There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the lex function in parser.hpp (as used in sassc) in LibSass 3.4.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-11554
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 31 Oct 2026, 09:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the lex function in parser.hpp (as used in sassc) in LibSass 3.4.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service.
osv:CVE-2017-11554
Complete source record
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