Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61764
Category:	Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:	Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2008-9263 (ed)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to ed announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-9263. Update Information: ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). 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) Users of ed should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve this issue. ChangeLog: * Wed Oct 29 2008 Karsten Hopp 1.1-1 - update to lastest version, fixes CVE-2008-3916 * Tue Jun 24 2008 Karsten Hopp 0.9-1 - version 0.9 * Sun Mar 23 2008 Tom spot Callaway - 0.8-3 - fix license tag References: [ 1 ] Bug #466094 - CVE-2008-3916 ed: Heap-based buffer overflow (arb. code execution) [F8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466094 [ 2 ] Bug #466095 - CVE-2008-3916 ed: Heap-based buffer overflow (arb. code execution) [F9] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466095 Solution: Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update ed' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-9263 Risk factor : Critical CVSS Score: 9.3
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-3916 BugTraq ID: 30815 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30815 Bugtraq: 20090227 VMSA-2009-0003 ESX 2.5.5 patch 12 updates service console package ed (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501298/100/0/threaded https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00847.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00873.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-15.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:200 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ed/2008-08/msg00000.html http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10678 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0946.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020734 http://secunia.com/advisories/32349 http://secunia.com/advisories/32460 http://secunia.com/advisories/33005 http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2011:002 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2642 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3347 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 XForce ISS Database: gnued-stripescapes-bo(44643) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44643
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