bug#19563: grep -F: fix a heap buffer (read) overrun

[Norihiro Tanaka]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 15:43:02 -0800
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:

> Colleagues Nima Aghdaii and Yuliy Pisetsky found and fixed a heap
> buffer overrun in grep's kwset.c.  The underlying bug, already hard to
> trigger, would most often result in a "mere" heap UMR (uninitialized
> memory read), but Yuliy constructed inputs (see the new test) that
> cause a buffer overrun.
> 
> I'm attaching two other related patches:
>   - grep: avoid false-positive UMR
>   - tests: add support for ASAN memory poisoning
> 
> I expect to push these by Monday.

How about the attachments instead for the second patch?

0002-grep-F-fix-a-heap-buffer-read-overrun.patch
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