CVE-2025-8735
Description
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in GNU cflow up to 1.8. Affected by this vulnerability is the function yylex of the file c.c of the component Lexer. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Affected 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Affected | — |
| sid | Affected | — |
| forky | Affected | — |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
References
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q_rDQSEl3cBu6SUbfqr9pV9cHgvKcXFI/view?usp=drive_link
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cflow/2025-07/msg00000.html
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.319231
- https://vuldb.com/?id.319231
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.622328
- https://www.gnu.org/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/27/12
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-8735
CWEs
CWE-404 CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.