Security Bulletin: Grep vulnerabilities affect IBM SmartCloud Entry (CVE-2012-5667)

Summary IBM SmartCloud Entry is vulnerable to several Grep vulnerabilities. Remote attackers can exploit them to obtain sensetive information or launch further attacks on the system. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2012-5667 DESCRIPTION: grep is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused...

Vulnerabilities of the command-line utility Grep, allowing a hacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a service failure

The multiple vulnerabilities of the Grep command-line utility are caused by a numerical overflow. Exploiting these vulnerabilities allows an attacker operating remotely to execute arbitrary code or cause a system failure termination of the program by entering an excessively long string of...