CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5667

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2013-01-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-01-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu grep (<= 2.10) • gnu grep 2.2 • gnu grep 2.3 • gnu grep 2.4 • gnu grep 2.4.1 • gnu grep 2.4.2 • gnu grep 2.5 • gnu grep 2.5.1 • gnu grep 2.5.3 • gnu grep 2.5.4 • gnu grep 2.6 • gnu grep 2.6.1 • gnu grep 2.6.2 • gnu grep 2.6.3 • gnu grep 2.7 • gnu grep 2.8 • gnu grep 2.9

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References