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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-1686
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2005-1686

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

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

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html

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

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/oval/definitions/data/oval1245.html

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

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-753

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


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