CVE-2005-1686

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.

CVSS v2.0

2.6 LOWAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

7.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 94th percentile

Published

2005-05-25

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25688

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2005-1681
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