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| Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120265 |
| Category: | Amazon Linux Local Security Checks |
| Title: | Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-598) |
| Summary: | The remote host is missing an update for the 'grep' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2015-598 advisory. |
| Description: | Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'grep' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2015-598 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way grep parsed large lines of data. An attacker able to trick a user into running grep on a specially crafted data file could use this flaw to crash grep or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running grep. (CVE-2012-5667) 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. (CVE-2015-1345) Affected Software/OS: 'grep' package(s) on Amazon Linux. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 4.4 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-5667 BugTraq ID: 57033 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57033 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2012-12/msg00004.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/22/6 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2015:1447 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1447.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-1345 BugTraq ID: 72281 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72281 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/10 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:0243 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00037.html |
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