CVE-2005-1686

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2005-05-20
Bugzilla:
1617658: CVE-2005-1686 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2005-1686 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (gedit) RHSA-2005:499 2005-06-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (gedit) RHSA-2005:499 2005-06-13

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