Debian Security Advisory
DLA-69-1 exuberant-ctags -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 03 Oct 2014
- Affected Packages:
- exuberant-ctags
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 742605.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-7204. - More information:
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Stefano Zacchiroli discovered that certain JavaScript input files cause ctags to enter an infinite loop until it runs out of disk space. This update fixes the JavaScript parser.
For Debian 6
Squeeze
, these issues have been fixed in exuberant-ctags version 1:5.8-3squeeze2