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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200603-07">
+  <title>flex: Potential insecure code generation</title>
+  <synopsis>
+    flex might generate code with a buffer overflow, making applications using
+    such scanners vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.
+  </synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">flex</product>
+  <announced>March 10, 2006</announced>
+  <revised>March 10, 2006: 01</revised>
+  <bug>122940</bug>
+  <access>remote and local</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="sys-devel/flex" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">2.5.33-r1</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">2.5.33-r1</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>
+    flex is a programming tool used to generate scanners (programs
+    which recognize lexical patterns in text).
+    </p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>
+    Chris Moore discovered a buffer overflow in a special class of
+    lexicographical scanners generated by flex. Only scanners generated by
+    grammars which use either REJECT, or rules with a "variable trailing
+    context" might be at risk.
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="normal">
+    <p>
+    An attacker could feed malicious input to an application making
+    use of an affected scanner and trigger the buffer overflow, potentially
+    resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
+    </p>
+  </impact>
+  <workaround>
+    <p>
+    Avoid using vulnerable grammar in your flex scanners.
+    </p>
+  </workaround>
+  <resolution>
+    <p>
+    All flex users should upgrade to the latest version:
+    </p>
+    <code>
+    # emerge --sync
+    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r1&quot;</code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0459">CVE-2006-0459</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:28:11 +0000">
+    koon
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:29:09 +0000">
+    koon
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:06:21 +0000">
+    koon
+  </metadata>
+</glsa>