CVE-2005-1686
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.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (7.66%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 2.6 LOWAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 7.66% probability · 94th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- gnome/gedit
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111661117701398&w=2
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-09.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-753
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-499.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1245
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9845
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/138-1/
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111661117701398&w=2
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-09.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-753
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-499.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1245
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9845
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/138-1/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.