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CVE-2020-14150

bison: allows attackers to cause a denial of service

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · April 5, 2020

Updated · June 27, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

To mitigate this flaw, do not use Bison on untrusted input.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-617 · Reachable Assertion