CVE-2012-5667
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4EPSS 1.0%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 1.0% (64th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-5550)
- Published
- January 3, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-5550 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
- gnu / grep
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=8fcf61523644df42e1905c81bed26838e0b04f91(Patch)
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=cbbc1a45b9f843c811905c97c90a5d31f8e6c189(Patch)
- http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git%3Ba=shortlog%3Bh=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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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