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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201502-14.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201502-14">
<title>grep: Denial of Service</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in grep could result in Denial of Service. </synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">grep,dos</product>
<announced>February 25, 2015</announced>
<revised>February 25, 2015: 1</revised>
<bug>537046</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="sys-apps/grep" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.21-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.21-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>grep is the GNU regular expression matcher.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A heap buffer overrun has been fixed in the bmexec_trans function in
kwset.c.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local user can cause Denial of Service.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All grep users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/grep-2.21-r1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1345">CVE-2015-1345</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 24 Feb 2015 06:32:56 +0000">
BlueKnight
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:22:12 +0000">K_F</metadata>
</glsa>