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<glsa id="202408-16">
    <title>re2c: Denial of Service</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in re2c, which can lead to a denial of service.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">re2c</product>
    <announced>2024-08-09</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-08-09</revised>
    <bug>719872</bug>
    <access>local</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="dev-util/re2c" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">2.0</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">2.0</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>re2c is a tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All re2c users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-util/re2c-2.0"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-21232">CVE-2018-21232</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-08-09T07:09:13.470150Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-08-09T07:09:13.473932Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>