grep: Denial of service

Background grep is the GNU regular expression matcher. Description A heap buffer overrun has been fixed in the bmexectrans 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...

Out-of-bounds

The bmexectrans function in kwset.c in grep 2.19 through 2.21 allows local users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds heap read and crash via crafted input when using the -F option...