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HistoryFeb 25, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

grep: Denial of service

2015-02-2500:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
17

2.1 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

Background

grep is the GNU regular expression matcher.

Description

A heap buffer overrun has been fixed in the bmexec_trans function in kwset.c.

Impact

A local user can cause Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All grep users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/grep-2.21-r1"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyallsys-apps/grep< 2.21-r1UNKNOWN

2.1 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%