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CVE-2015-1345

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The bmexec_trans function in kwset.c in grep 2.19 through 2.21 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash) via crafted input when using the -F option.

Affected products

• GNU Grep: 2.19, 2.20, 2.21
• Opensuse: 13.2

References

• http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19563
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=83a95bd8c8561875b948cadd417c653dbe7ef2e2
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00037.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1447.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/10
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72281
• http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19563
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=83a95bd8c8561875b948cadd417c653dbe7ef2e2
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00037.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1447.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/10

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