CVE-2005-1686 (GCVE-0-2005-1686)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-05-25 04:00
Modified
2024-08-07 21:59
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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