DSA-753-1 gedit -- format string

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

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

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.