CVE-2012-5667 (GCVE-0-2012-5667)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-01-03 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:14
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-03-02 00:00
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