CVE-2005-1686

Published May 20, 2005

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 2.6
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 4.9
Vector string: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gedit:2.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "5D3096CD-F44B-4D90-83AC-633666FD5ADB"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

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