Executive Summary

Summary
Title New gedit packages fix denial of service
Informations
Name DSA-753 First vendor Publication 2005-07-12
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2005-07-12
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 2.6 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit, a light-weight text editor for GNOME, that may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a binary file with format string specifiers in the filename. Since gedit supports opening files via "http://" URLs (through GNOME vfs) and other schemes, this might be a remotely exploitable vulnerability.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable to this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.3-4sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gedit package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-753

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1245
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1245
Title: gedit Format String Vulnerability
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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-1686
 Version: 2
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
 Product(s): gedit
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9845
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9845
Title: 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.
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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-1686
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for gedit
File : nvt/sles9p5017424.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200506-09 (gedit)
File : nvt/glsa_200506_09.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: gedit
File : nvt/freebsd_gedit.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 753-1 (gedit)
File : nvt/deb_753_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
71971 Oracle Solaris gedit Filename Format String

Oracle Solaris contains a flaw related to the Gedit Gnome text editor that may allow a local denial of service. The issue is triggered due to the handling of binary files with format string specifiers in the filename. With a specially crafted filename, a malicious user can cause the application to crash resulting in a loss of availability.
16809 GNOME gedit Filename Format String DoS

gedit contains a flaw that may allow a local denial of service. The issue is triggered due to the handling of binary files with format string specifiers in the filename. With a specially crafted filename, a malicious user can cause the application to crash resulting in a loss of availability.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-01-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-773.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse9_10253.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-07-03 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2005-499.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-05-13 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_e319da0ba22811dab410000e0c2e438a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-138-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-07-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-753.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-06-16 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-102.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-06-13 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2005-499.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-06-11 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200506-09.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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