CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-1686

Published: May 20, 2005 | Modified: Oct 03, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.6 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Format string vulnerability in gedit 2.10.2 may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a bin file with format string specifiers in the filename. NOTE: while this issue is triggered on the command line by the gedit user, it has been reported that web browsers and email clients could be configured to provide a file name as an argument to gedit, so there is a valid attack that crosses security boundaries.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gedit Gnome 2.10.2 (including) 2.10.2 (including)

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