CVE-2020-14150

Description

GNU Bison before 3.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash). NOTE: there is a risk only if Bison is used with untrusted input, and an observed bug happens to cause unsafe behavior with a specific compiler/architecture. The bug reports were intended to show that a crash may occur in Bison itself, not that a crash may occur in code that is generated by Bison.

5.5

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 3.1 •

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 0.12%

Vendor Advisory gnu.org

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-04/msg00000.html	vendor advisory mailing list
https://bugs.gentoo.org/717936	third party advisory issue tracking

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2020-14150?: CVE-2020-14150 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2020-14150?: To fix CVE-2020-14150, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2020-14150 being actively exploited in the wild?: As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2020-14150 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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