CVE-2008-3916

2008-09-0400:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

9.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.005

Percentile

75.4%

JSON

Heap-based buffer overflow in the strip_escapes function in signal.c in GNU
ed before 1.0 allows context-dependent or user-assisted attackers to
execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: since ed itself does not
typically run with special privileges, this issue only crosses privilege
boundaries when ed is invoked as a third-party component.