re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags.
    (CVE-2018-21232)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202408-16 (re2c: Denial of Service)

    Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3353-1 advisory.

  - re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags.
    (CVE-2018-21232)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the b0e1fa2b-9c86-11ed-9296-002b67dfc673 advisory.

  - re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags.
    (CVE-2018-21232)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
259573	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-21232	Nessus	Misc.	medium
205303	GLSA-202408-16 : re2c: Denial of Service	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium
179992	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : re2c (SUSE-SU-2023:3353-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
170569	FreeBSD : re2c -- uncontrolled recursion (b0e1fa2b-9c86-11ed-9296-002b67dfc673)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium

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