regex.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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - regex.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. (CVE-2017-5357)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

An update of the ed package has been released.

This update for ed fixes the following security issue :

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)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the ed package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - regex.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.(CVE-2017-5357)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

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)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security fix for CVE-2017-5357

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
221089	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-5357	Nessus	Misc.	high
204369	Photon OS 5.0: Ed PHSA-2023-5.0-0017	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
137619	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ed (SUSE-SU-2020:1608-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
132289	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : ed (EulerOS-SA-2019-2572)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
131660	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : ed (EulerOS-SA-2019-2507)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
129119	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : ed (EulerOS-SA-2019-1962)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
123640	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : ed (SUSE-SU-2019:14005-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
96682	Fedora 25 : ed (2017-f87674ad41)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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