CVE-2006-6105 (GCVE-0-2006-6105)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-12-15 02:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:12
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/23385 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/23387 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5015 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/23409 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017383 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017320 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.osvdb.org/30848 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30896 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21597 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/23381 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=453 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_IDEFENSE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_29_sr.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:231 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.17/gdm-2.17.4.news x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-396-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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