Genivia Ugrep up to 7.5.x LZW Decompressor heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Genivia Ugrep up to 7.5.x. It has been rated as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component LZW Decompressor. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-15614. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Genivia Ugrep up to 7.5.x. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component LZW Decompressor. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-15614 since 03/23/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 7.6.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Ugrep 7.6.0

Timelineinfo

03/23/2026 CVE reserved
09/05/2026 +165 days Advisory disclosed
09/05/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
09/05/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-15614 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-15614
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-399329

Entryinfo

Created: 09/05/2026 13:54
Changes: 09/05/2026 13:54 (76)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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