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 #34 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34140: AddressSanitizer reported heap-buffer-overflow when
 ignoring case
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:22:05 -0600

On 01/31/2019 03:34 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.

Will there be a new grep release soon?

  -- Bruce Dubbs
     linuxfromscratch.org
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