CVE-2017-5357 in Ed

Summary

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.

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Reservation

01/12/2017

Disclosure

02/16/2017

Moderation

VulDB entry created

Entries

1

CPE

ready

CWE

CWE-416

CVSS

6.4

EPSS

0.01019

CTI

0.00

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5357
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5357
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-5357/