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16 years ago, there was a bug reported to zgrep where files with 1 newline caused it to behave incorrectly. It was patched without a CVE https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/zgrep.in?i...

This year, there was a bug reported to zgrep where files with 2 newlines caused it to behave incorrectly. It got a CVE and a front page hacker news post.

I give it very good odds this vulnerability has seen next to zero exploitation in the wild in either of the two cases above.



So we’re 16 years out from the three new line bug.





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