CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6105

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2006-12-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-12-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Format string vulnerability in the host chooser window (gdmchooser) in GNOME Foundation Display Manager (gdm) allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a hostname, which are used in an error dialog.

Affected configurations

• gnome gdm 2.14.1 • gnome gdm 2.16 • gnome gdm 2.16.1 • gnome gdm 2.16.2

References