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1 vulnerability found for ugrep by Genivia

CVE-2025-15614 (GCVE-0-2025-15614)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-05 11:37
Modified
2026-09-24 14:17
CWE
Summary
ugrep before 7.6.0 contains a heap buffer over-read vulnerability in the LZW decompressor when processing crafted .Z archive files. Attackers can supply malformed .Z files that cause the decompressor to read one byte past the allocated heap buffer, potentially crashing the process.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Genivia ugrep Version: 0   ≤
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