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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1686

Original release date:05/20/2005

Last revised:09/10/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:2.6 (LOW) (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 4.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-138-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-138-1

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2005:499

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-499.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200506-09

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-09.xml

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20050520 pst.advisory: gedit fun. opensource is god .lol windows

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111661117701398&w=2