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Gentoo: GLSA-202401-12 Moderate: Sed Utility Vulnerability Risk

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2014
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A critical flaw in Grep on Gentoo might enable arbitrary code execution or trigger a Denial of Service. To reduce potential threats, make sure to upgrade to the most recent version.
A vulnerability in grep could result in execution of arbitrary code or Denial of Service.

Summary

An integer overflow flaw has been discovered in grep.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo linux normal severity grep code execution vulnerability issue

Resolution

All grep users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/grep-2.12"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-5667 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-5667

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201403-07
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: grep: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Date: March 26, 2014
Bugs: #448246
ID: 201403-07

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo linux normal severity grep code execution vulnerability issue

Synopsis

A vulnerability in grep could result in execution of arbitrary code or Denial of Service.

Background

grep is the GNU regular expression matcher.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-apps/grep < 2.12 >= 2.12

Impact

===== An attacker could entice a user to run grep on a specially crafted file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.