External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-138-1
Last updated: Wed Jun 19 07:58:31 EDT 2013
CVE Publication rate: 12.43
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Vulnerability Workload Index: 5.15
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.
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