CVE-2012-5667 Information

Description

Multiple integer overflows in GNU Grep before 2.11 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a long input line that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Reference

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=8fcf61523644df42e1905c81bed26838e0b04f91 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=cbbc1a45b9f843c811905c97c90a5d31f8e6c189 http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.11 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2012-12/msg00004.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/22/6 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1447.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57033 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grep/+bug/1091473 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889935