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