Synopsis: Moderate: ed security update
Issue date: 2008-10-21
CVE Names: CVE-2008-3916
A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way ed, the GNU line
editor, processed long file names. An attacker could create a file with
a specially-crafted name that could possibly execute an arbitrary code
when opened in the ed editor. (CVE-2008-3916)
SL 3.0.x
SRPMS:
ed-0.2-33.30E.1.src.rpm
i386:
ed-0.2-33.30E.1.i386.rpm
x86_64:
ed-0.2-33.30E.1.x86_64.rpm
SL 4.x
SRPMS:
ed-0.2-36.el4_7.1.src.rpm
i386:
ed-0.2-36.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
x86_64:
ed-0.2-36.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm
SL 5.x
SRPMS:
ed-0.2-39.el5_2.src.rpm
i386:
ed-0.2-39.el5_2.i386.rpm
x86_64:
ed-0.2-39.el5_2.x86_64.rpm
-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson