Re: GNU ed heap overflow

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* Steven M. Christey:

> On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> > Interesting.  But this type of command execution is not possible with
> > "red", which suffers from the same overflow.
>
> Does red share the same codebase as ed?  Or is a separate CVE necessary?

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2008-08-31 11:36 /usr/bin/red -> /bin/ed

It's "restricted ed" in the sense of "restriced bash" etc.