GNU bug report logs - #34140
AddressSanitizer reported heap-buffer-overflow when ignoring case

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 05:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 34140-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: arnold <at> skeeve.com, leftcopy.chx <at> gmail.com
Cc: 34140-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34140: AddressSanitizer reported heap-buffer-overflow when
 ignoring case
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:34:53 -0800

On 1/25/19 4:24 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 1/22/19 11:08 PM, arnold <at> skeeve.com wrote:
>> Do you have an ETA on when the fix will get pushed to GNULIB?
>
> Glibc is scheduled for release on February 1, and I plan to update 
> glibc and Gnulib soon after it's released (which may be a bit later 
> than Feb. 1). 

This is done now and the fix is propagated into Gnulib and grep, so I'm 
marking the grep bug as done. If you're using a glibc version before 
glibc 2.30 (which will not be out for months) you may need to 
'./configure --with-included-regex' to get the fix.
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