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From: | Jonathan A. George |
Subject: | glibc : regex bug in glibc2.3.x exposed via gnu grep |
Date: | Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:55:11 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021226 Debian/1.2.1-9 |
Hello,When using glibc 2.3.x the following GNU grep command causes all memory to be consumed.
$ grep 'a**' /etc/passwd Sincerely, Jonathan A. George
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