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TITLE:
grep Long Line Handling Integer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51666

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-12-26

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in grep, which can be exploited by
malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error when
parsing very long lines and can be exploited to cause a heap-based
buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but
requires tricking a user into processing a malicious file.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.11.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.11 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Joshua Rogers via Ubuntu bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
GNU:
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7132

Joshua Rogers:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grep/+bug/1091473

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