CVE-2005-2944

The CVE-2005-2944 entry applies to GNOME Workstation Command Center (gwcc) 0.9.6 and earlier. The vulnerability arises in perform_file_save, where a symlink attack on the temporary file gwcc_out.txt enables local users to create and overwrite arbitrary files. The NVD entry lists a local attack ve...

CVE-2005-2944: Undefined Security Weakness

The performfilesave function in GNOME Workstation Command Center gwcc 0.9.6 and earlier allows local users to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the gwccout.txt temporary file...

GNOME gedit contains format string vulnerability

Overview gedit has a format string vulnerability in some error dialogs that can occur when a file is opened for editing. Description gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. gedit 2.10.2 has a format string error in some some error dialogs that can occur when a file is...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: gpdf security update

An updated gpdf package that fixes a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The gpdf package is an GNOME based viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. Marcus Meissn...

Fedora Core 4 : yelp-2.10.0-1.4.1 (2005-622)

Yelp is a help documentation browser for the GNOME environment. There were several security flaws found in the mozilla package, which yelp depends on. Users of yelp are advised to upgrade to this updated package which has been rebuilt against a version of mozilla not vulnerable to these flaws. No...

Fedora Core 4 : epiphany-1.6.3-2 (2005-620)

Epiphany is a simple GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine. There were several security flaws found in the mozilla package, which epiphany depends on. Users of epiphany are advised to upgrade to this updated package which has been rebuilt against a version of mozilla not...

Fedora Core 4 : devhelp-0.10-1.4.1 (2005-621)

Devhelp is an API document browser for the GNOME environment. There were several security flaws found in the mozilla package, which devhelp depends on. Users of devhelp are advised to upgrade to this updated package which has been rebuilt against a version of mozilla not vulnerable to these flaws...

Fedora Core 3 : devhelp-0.9.2-2.3.5 (2005-618)

Devhelp is an API document browser for the GNOME environment. There were several security flaws found in the mozilla package, which devhelp depends on. Users of devhelp are advised to upgrade to this updated package which has been rebuilt against a version of mozilla not vulnerable to these flaws...

FreeBSD : multi-gnome-terminal (2282)

The following package needs to be updated: multi-gnome-terminal %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script contains information extracted from VuXML : Copyright 2003-2006 Jacques Vidrine and contributors Redistribution and use in source VuXML and 'compiled' forms SGML, HTML,...

[SECURITY] [DSA 753-1] New gedit packages fix denial of service

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 753-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 12th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-753-1 gedit - format string

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Debian DSA-753-1 : gedit - format string

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...

gedit security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:499 An updated gedit package that fixes a file name format string vulnerability is now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team gEdit is a small text editor designed specifically fo...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: gedit security update

An updated gedit package that fixes a file name format string vulnerability is now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team gEdit is a small text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop. A file name format string...

gedit: Format string vulnerability

Background gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environement. Description A format string vulnerability exists when opening files with names containing format specifiers. Impact A specially crafted file with format specifiers in the filename can cause arbitrary code execution...

RHEL 3 : evolution (RHSA-2005:238)

Updated evolution packages that fix various bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Evolution is the GNOME collection of personal information management PIM tools. Evolution includes a mailer, calendar, contact manage...

evolution security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:397 Updated evolution packages that fix various security issues are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Evolution is a GNOME-based collection of personal information...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: evolution security update

Updated evolution packages that fix various security issues are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Evolution is a GNOME-based collection of personal information management PIM tools. A bug was found in the way...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnome-vfs2 (MDKSA-2005:074)

A buffer overflow bug was found by Joseph VanAndel in the way that grip handles data returned by CDDB servers. If a user connected to a malicious CDDB server, an attacker could execute arbitrary code on the user's machine. This same vulnerability is present in the gnome-vfs2 code. The updated...

gdk security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:343-01 Updated gdk-pixbuf packages that fix a double free vulnerability are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The gdk-pixbuf package contains an image loading library...