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MiracleLinux 4 : grep-2.20-3.AXS4 (AXSA:2015-422:01)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 289608

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2015-422:01 advisory.

 The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches through textual input for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities include grep, egrep and fgrep.
 GNU grep is needed by many scripts, so it shall be installed on every system.
 Security issues fixed with this release:
 CVE-2012-5667 CVE-2015-1345 Fixed bugs:
 * Prior to this update, the \w and \W symbols were inconsistently matched to the [:alnum:] character class. Consequently, regular expressions that used \w and \W in some cases had incorrect results. An upstream patch which fixes the matching problem has been applied to fix this bug.
 * Previously, the --fixed-regexp command-line option was not included in the grep(1) manual page. Consequently, the manual page was inconsistent with the built-in help of the grep utility. To fix this bug, grep(1) has been updated to include a note informing the user that --fixed-regexp is an obsolete option.
 * Previously, the Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library did not work correctly when matching non-UTF-8 text in UTF-8 mode. Consequently, an error message about invalid UTF-8 byte sequence characters was returned. To fix this bug, patches from upstream have been applied to the PCRE library and the grep utility.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected grep package.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/5769

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 289608

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2015-422.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-5667

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1345

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:grep, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5667, CVE-2015-1345