Medium
cflow — security advisory
Use-after-Free vulnerability in cflow 1.6 in the void call(char *name, int line) function at src/parser.c, which could cause a denial of service via the pointer variable caller->callee.
- Products
- cflow
- Affected versions
- 1:1.4+dfsg1-3ubuntu1, 1:1.4+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.16.04.1~esm1, 1:1.4+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.18.04.1~esm1, 1:1.6-4, 1:1.6-6, 1:1.7-2, 1:1.7-4, 1:1.7-5, 1:1.8-1, 1:1.8-1build1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-23856
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Use-after-Free vulnerability in cflow 1.6 in the void call(char *name, int line) function at src/parser.c, which could cause a denial of service via the pointer variable caller->callee.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2020-23856
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Complete source record
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