Title: Gedit Filename Format String Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
gEdit is a freely available, open-source text processor. It is available for UNIX and Linux platforms.
The application is prone to a format-string vulnerability. Exploitation may occur when the program is invoked with a filename that includes malicious format specifiers. Attackers could exploit this issue to corrupt arbitrary regions of memory with attacker-supplied data, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code in the context of the user running the program.
For this issue to be exploited, the program would need to be invoked with an untrusted filename. This could occur automatically if the program is specified as the default file viewer/handler for a browser or some other program.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 3.1.0
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 amd64
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 sparc
- GNOME gEdit 2.0.2
- GNOME gEdit 2.10.2
- GNOME gEdit 2.2.0 .0
- GNOME gEdit 2.8.1
- GNOME gEdit 2.8.3
- ImageMagick ImageMagick 5.4.3
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.1.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.1.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.2.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.2.0 x86_64
- RedHat Desktop 3.0.0
- RedHat Desktop 4.0.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
- SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3.0.0
- SGI ProPack 3.0.0
- Turbolinux Home
- Turbolinux Turbolinux 10 F...
- Turbolinux Turbolinux Desktop 10.0.0
- Turbolinux Turbolinux Workstation 8.0.0
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1.0 ia32
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1.0 ia64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1.0 ppc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.0.0 4 amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.0.0 4 i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.0.0 4 powerpc
References:
- GNOME: gEdit Homepage
- ImageMagick: ImageMagick Homepage
- RedHat: RHSA-2005:499-05 - gedit security update
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