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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201502-14 |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: grep: Denial of Service |
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Date: February 25, 2015 |
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Bugs: #537046 |
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ID: 201502-14 |
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Synopsis |
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A vulnerability in grep could result in Denial of Service. |
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Background |
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grep is the GNU regular expression matcher. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 sys-apps/grep < 2.21-r1 >= 2.21-r1 |
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Description |
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A heap buffer overrun has been fixed in the bmexec_trans function in |
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kwset.c. |
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Impact |
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A local user can cause Denial of Service. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All grep users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/grep-2.21-r1" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2015-1345 |
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http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1345 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-14.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2015 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |
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