[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-2.21-2

Eric Blake (cygwin) eblake@redhat.com
Sat Jan 24 01:58:00 GMT 2015


A new release of grep, 2.21-2, has been uploaded and will soon reach a
mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.21-1.

NEWS:
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This is a fix for CVE-2015-1345, where grep can be coerced to read
uninitialized memory on certain inputs.

For more details on grep, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/.

DESCRIPTION:
============
GNU Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match
to a specified patter.  By default, Grep outputs the matching lines.
The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX.

UPDATE:
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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'grep'
in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected).

DOWNLOAD:
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Note that downloads from cygwin.com aren't allowed due to bandwidth
limitations.  This means that you will need to find a mirror which has
this update, please choose the one nearest to you:
http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

QUESTIONS:
==========
If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is
the appropriate place.

-- 
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin grep package maintainer

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