A vulnerability has been identified in GNU ed, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "strip_escapes()" [signal.c] function when processing long filenames, which could be exploited by context-dependent or user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.
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