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CVE-2008-3196

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-07-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

skeleton.c in yacc does not properly handle reduction of a rule with an empty right hand side, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause an out-of-bounds stack access when the yacc stack pointer points to the end of the stack.

Affected products

• Yacc: all versions

References

• http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121553004431393&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121553036432044&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31073
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2151/references
• http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121553004431393&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121553036432044&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31073
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2151/references

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