cve/2005/CVE-2005-1686.md

### [CVE-2005-1686](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1686)
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### Description

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 clients could be configured to provide a file name as an argument to gedit, so there is a valid attack that crosses security boundaries.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111661117701398&w=2
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9845

#### Github
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