CVE-2008-3916

Upstream information

CVE-2008-3916 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 421849 [RESOLVED / INVALID], 474587 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2011:002, published Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:00:00 +0000
openSUSE-SU-2010:1084-1, published Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:08:11 +0100 (CET)

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1	`ed >= 0.2-1001.30.1`	Patchnames: slessp1-ed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2	`ed >= 0.2-1001.30.1`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA ed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3	`ed >= 0.2-1001.30.1`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA ed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4	`ed >= 0.2-1001.30.1`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA ed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3 for x86 SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 10 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 10 SP3	`ed >= 0.2-881.9.1`	sled10-sp3.x86 sles10-sp3.x86-64 sles10-sp3.ia64 sles10-sp3.x86 sles10-sp3.ppc sled10-sp3.x86-64 sles10-sp3.s390x ZYPP Patch Nr: 7301
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware	`ed >= 0.2-1001.30.1`	sles11-sp1.s390x sled11-sp1.x86-64 sles11-sp1.x86-64 sles11-sp1-vmware.x86-64 sled11-sp1.x86 sles11-sp1.ppc sles11-sp1-vmware.x86 sles11-sp1.ia64 sles11-sp1.x86 SAT Patch Nr: 3792
openSUSE 11.1	`ed-debuginfo >= 0.2-1001.15.1` `ed-debugsource >= 0.2-1001.15.1`
openSUSE 11.1	`ed >= 0.2-1001.15.1`
openSUSE 11.2	`ed-debuginfo >= 0.2-1003.3.1` `ed-debugsource >= 0.2-1003.3.1`
openSUSE 11.2	`ed >= 0.2-1003.3.1`

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification.

Product(s)	Source package	State
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3	ed	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 GA	ed	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1	ed	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3	ed	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1	ed	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS	ed	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP AIO 11 SP1	ed	Released