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Gentoo: 202203-28 Advisory: findrace Race Condition Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 25, 2015
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A high severity denial of service vulnerability in the grep utility requires immediate action by Gentoo users to secure their systems from potential attacks
A vulnerability in grep could result in Denial of Service.

Summary

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

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Topics Covered

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Resolution

All grep users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/grep-2.21-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-1345 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1345

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201502-14
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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: Denial of Service
Date: February 25, 2015
Bugs: #537046
ID: 201502-14

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

A vulnerability in grep could result in Denial of Service.

Background

grep is the GNU regular expression matcher.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-apps/grep < 2.21-r1 >= 2.21-r1

Impact

===== A local user can cause Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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