Fedora 9 : ed-1.1-1.fc9 (2008-9263)

high Nessus Plugin ID 34676

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way ed, the GNU line editor, processed long file names. An attacker could create a file with a specially crafted name that could possibly execute an arbitrary code when opened in the ed editor. (CVE-2008-3916) Users of ed should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve this issue.

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

Solution

Update the affected ed package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466094

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466095

http://www.nessus.org/u?d1c15960

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 34676

File Name: fedora_2008-9263.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/31/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ed, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3916

BID: 30815

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-9263