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<glsa id="200506-09">
  <title>gedit: Format string vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    gedit suffers from a format string vulnerability that could allow arbitrary
    code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">gedit</product>
  <announced>2005-06-11</announced>
  <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
  <bug>93352</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-editors/gedit" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.10.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.10.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environement.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    A format string vulnerability exists when opening files with names
    containing format specifiers.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A specially crafted file with format specifiers in the filename can
    cause arbitrary code execution.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There are no known workarounds at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All gedit users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-editors/gedit-2.10.3"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13699">BugTraq ID 13699</uri>
    <uri link="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2005-June/msg00006.html">gedit 10.3 Release Notes</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1686">CVE-2005-1686</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-06-10T14:36:10Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-06-10T17:36:40Z">
    r2d2
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-06-11T11:59:18Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>
