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grep : 3 character expression causes OOM


From: Jonathan A. George
Subject: grep : 3 character expression causes OOM
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:49:58 -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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