CVE-2015-1345

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.

This issue did not affect versions of grep as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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