Bug 1413901 (CVE-2017-5357)

Summary: CVE-2017-5357 ed: Invalid free in regex.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-01-17 09:40:35 UTC
A vulnerability was found in GNU ed. An invalid free might occur while parsing specially crafted commands which will make the application crash.

References:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ed/2017-01/msg00002.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/70

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-01-17 09:40:57 UTC
Created ed tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1413902]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-01-17 09:41:19 UTC
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Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.