Debian Security Advisory
DSA-753-1 gedit -- format string
- Date Reported:
- 12 Jul 2005
- Affected Packages:
- gedit
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1686.
- More information:
-
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.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit-common_2.8.3-4sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit-dev_2.8.3-4sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit-dev_2.8.3-4sarge1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gedit/gedit_2.8.3-4sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.