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.
Published: 2005-05-25
Score: 2.6 Low
EPSS: 2.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
AI Analysis

No analysis available yet.

Remediation

No remediation available yet.

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-1688 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-138-1 gedit vulnerability
History

No history.

Subscriptions

Gnome Gedit
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:59:24.052Z

Reserved: 2005-05-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-1686

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-05-20T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-1686

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-1686 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses