Security Advisory

CVE-2008-3916

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-09-04 18:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 10:00:41

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the strip_escapes function in signal.c in GNU ed before 1.0 allows context-dependent or user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: since ed itself does not typically run with special privileges, this issue only crosses privilege boundaries when ed is invoked as a third-party component.

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