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Red Hat update for ed
Secunia Advisory: SA32349
Release Date: 2008-10-22
Popularity: 1,742 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium
RHEL Desktop Workstation 5

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Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for ed. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The security issue is caused due to an error within the "strip_escapes()" function in signal.c when processing overly long filenames. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by passing a specially crafted filename to the application.

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