CVE-2005-1686

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-1686
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-05-20 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionFormat 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.6 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Gedit 2.10.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-753-1 gedit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
'pst.advisory: gedit fun. opensource is god .lol windows' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
USN-138-1: gedit vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 usn.ubuntu.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- gedit: Format string vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
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