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