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CVE-2006-6105

Severity Medium
Score 4.3/10

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • SINGLE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published