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.

An update of the ed package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - ed: Invalid free in regex.c (CVE-2017-5357)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - ed: Invalid free in regex.c (CVE-2017-5357)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - ed: Invalid free in regex.c (CVE-2017-5357)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

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
204369	Photon OS 5.0: Ed PHSA-2023-5.0-0017	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
199836	RHEL 7 : ed (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
199823	RHEL 5 : ed (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
199809	RHEL 6 : ed (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196613	RHEL 7 : ed (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196537	RHEL 6 : ed (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat 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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