From: Pınar Yanardağ (pinarpardus.org.tr)
Date: Sun Aug 31 2008 - 20:14:09 CDT

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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-34 securitypardus.org.tr
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       Date: 2008-09-01
   Severity: 2
       Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability was reported in GNU ed. A remote user can cause
arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system.

Description
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A remote user can create a specially crafted file that, when processed
by the target user, will trigger a heap overflow and potentially execute
arbitrary code on the target system. The code will run with the
privileges of the target user.

The vulnerability resides in strip_escapes() in signal.c.

Note: This vulnerability found by Alfredo Ortega from Core Security
Technologies.

Affected packages:

   Pardus 2008:
     ed, all before 1.0-9-2
   Pardus 2007:
     ed, all before 1.0-7-8

Resolution
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There are update(s) for ed. You can update them via Package Manager or
with a single command from console:

   Pardus 2008:
     pisi up ed

   Pardus 2007:
     pisi up ed

References
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   * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8092
   * http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Aug/1020734.html
   * http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ed/2008-06/msg00000.html

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Pınar Yanardağ
Pardus Security Team
http://security.pardus.org.tr

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