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CVE-2017-5357

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 25
• GNU Ed: through 1.14

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/5
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/13/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95422
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZVH54XNZ77ICNBJTPI2DLJYQTA3SYSFC/
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ed/2017-01/msg00000.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/5
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/13/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95422

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