CVE-2006-6105

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...

Fedora Core 6 : gdm-2.16.4-1.fc6 (2006-1468)

This update brings gdm to the latest stable upstream version, which among other bug fixes and improvements contains a fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID CVE-2006-6105. This fixes a problem where a user can enter strings like '%08x' into the gdmchooser 'Add'j host button and...