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TITLE:
Fedora update for ed

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32460

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32460/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 8
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/16769/
Fedora 9
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18642/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora 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.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update ed").

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2008-9236:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00847.html

FEDORA-2008-9263:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00873.html

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