CVE-2017-5357

Summary

CVECVE-2017-5357
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-02-17 02:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:49:00 UTC
Descriptionregex.c in GNU ed before 1.14.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed command, which triggers an invalid free.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 25 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 25 All All All
Application Gnu Ed All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: invalid free in GNU ed before 1.14.1 MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - invalid free in GNU ed before 1.14.1 MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: ed-1.14.1-1.fc25 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: invalid free in GNU ed before 1.14.1 MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: invalid free in GNU ed before 1.14.1 MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: ed-1.14.1-1.fc25 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
GNU ed CVE-2017-5357 Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[Bug-ed] invalid free on malformed commands MLIST lists.gnu.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 671107 EulerOS Security Update for ed (EulerOS-SA-2019-2572)
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