CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1686

2.6 LOW Published 2005-05-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• gnome gedit 2.10.2

References