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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:13:01 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: GNU ed heap overflow

Can we get a CVE for this?  The overflow is in the command line
processing, and also affects the red command.

| Alfredo Ortega from Core Security Technologies has found that GNU Ed
| is vulnerable to a heap overflow.

<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ed/2008-06/msg00000.html>

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