oss-security - Re: GNU ed heap overflow

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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:07:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GNU ed heap overflow

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Interesting.  But this type of command execution is not possible with
> "red", which suffers from the same overflow.

Does red share the same codebase as ed?  Or is a separate CVE necessary?

- Steve

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