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SUSE: 2019:14005-1 Low Severity: Ed Local Crash Security Update

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has released patches to rectify a vulnerability in the processing of commands within the ed editor, aimed at averting potential system crashes by local users.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for ed fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2017-5357: An invalid free in the regular expression handling of the "ed" command processing could allow local users to crash ed. (bsc#1019807) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-ed-14005=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-ed-14005=1 Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64): ed-0.2-1001.30.3.4 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64): ed-debuginfo-0.2-1001.30.3.4 ed-debugsource-0.2-1001.30.3.4

References

#1019807

Cross- CVE-2017-5357

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5357.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1019807

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:14005-1
Rating: low

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