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[SM-Security] gedit2: format string vulnerability

From: Thomas Houssin <Thomas.Houssin AT gmail.com>
To: sm-security AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [SM-Security] gedit2: format string vulnerability
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 01:20:32 +0200

Synopsis
========
A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit (spell gedit2).

Background
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gedit is a text editor for the GNOME environment.

Description
===========
>From Ubuntu Security Notice USN-138-1:

A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit. Calling
the program with specially crafted file names caused a buffer
overflow, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the gedit user.

Affected packages
=================
gedit2 in all grimoires is affected.
This is now fixed in devel, test, stable-rc and stable grimoire.

Resolution
==========
All gedit2 users should upgrade to the latest available version:
#scribe update
#cast -c gedit2

--
Thomas Houssin

Security Team Lead : Source Mage GNU/Linux http://www.sourcemage.org
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http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x42404C36

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[SM-Security] gedit2: format string vulnerability, Thomas Houssin, 06/11/2005