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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-f87674ad41 Critical: ed Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Major security patch for ed in Fedora 25 tackles CVE-2017-5357, improving overall system protection. Discover more.
Security fix for CVE-2017-5357

Summary

Ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify

text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). For most

purposes, ed has been replaced in normal usage by full-screen editors(emacs and vi, for example).

Ed was the original UNIX editor, and may be used by some programs. In

general, however, you probably don't need to install it and you probably

won't use it.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2017-5357

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Fedora critical fix ed editor CVE-2017-5357

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1413901 - CVE-2017-5357 ed: Invalid free in regex.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413901

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade ed' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: ed
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.14.1
Release: 1.fc25
URL:
Summary: The GNU line editor

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security advisory denial of service Fedora critical fix ed editor CVE-2017-5357

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