metadata/glsa/glsa-201502-14.xml

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<!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>