CVE-2005-1686

Format string vulnerability in gedit 2.10.2 may allow attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a bin file with format string specifiers in the filename. NOTE: while this issue is triggered on the command line by the gedit user, it has been reported that web browsers and email...

gedit -- format string vulnerability

Yan Feng reports a format string vulnerability in gedit. This vulnerability could cause a denial of service with a binary file that contains format string characters within the filename. It had been reported that web browsers and email clients can be configured to provide a filename as an argumen...

GEdit 2.02.2 - Large IOStream File Memory Corruption

GEdit 2.02.2 - Large IOStream File Memory Corruption // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9090/info A problem has been reported in the handling of certain file types by gEdit. Memory corruption may occur when handling files containing long strings. Because of this, it may be possible to...

GEdit 2.0/2.2 - Large IOStream File Memory Corruption

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9090/info A problem has been reported in the handling of certain file types by gEdit. Memory corruption may occur when handling files containing long strings. Because of this, it may be possible to cause memory corruption. / simple buffer overflow...