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cflow — security advisory
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in GNU cflow up to 1.8. Affected by this vulnerability is the function yylex of the file c.c of the component Lexer. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
- 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-2025-8735
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 02:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in GNU cflow up to 1.8. Affected by this vulnerability is the function yylex of the file c.c of the component Lexer. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-8735
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Complete source record
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