CVE-2005-1686 Information

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.

Reference

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/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1245 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9845 https://usn.ubuntu.com/138-1/