*** This bug is a security vulnerability ***
Public security bug reported:
Christian Boltz discovered that grep 2.22 can be sent into an infinite
loop. 2.21 does not have this issue. The reproducer we have available so
far:
grep -obUa -P '\x04\x08\x00profile\x00\x07' /etc/apparmor.d/cache/*
Probably one of the files in that directory will report infinite output
in the style of:
# grep -obUa -P '\x04\x08\x00profile\x00\x07' cache--usr.sbin.smbldap-useradd
16profile
27801profile
27801profile
27801profile
27801profile
27801profile
...
Thanks
** Affects: grep (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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grep 2.22 infinite loop
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