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Message-ID: <20080901070554.GA14496@sdf.lonestar.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 07:05:54 +0000
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@....lonestar.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GNU ed heap overflow
If you can specify an arbitrary filename, can't you execute commands
anyway?
$ ed '!ls>&2'
bin dev home lost+found misc net proc sbin srv tmp var
boot etc lib media mnt opt root selinux sys usr
0
Thanks, Tavis.
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 01:13:01PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Can we get a CVE for this? The overflow is in the command line
> processing, and also affects the red command.
>
> | Alfredo Ortega from Core Security Technologies has found that GNU Ed
> | is vulnerable to a heap overflow.
>
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ed/2008-06/msg00000.html>
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