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CVE-2015-1345

Public on 2015-02-12
Modified on 2016-01-18
Description

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way grep processed certain pattern and text combinations. An attacker able to trick a user into running grep on specially crafted input could use this flaw to crash grep or, potentially, read from uninitialized memory.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
1.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 grep 2016-01-18 11:00 ALAS-2016-639
Amazon Linux 1 grep 2015-09-22 10:00 ALAS-2015-598

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 1.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P