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IDCVSSSummaryLast (major) updatePublished
CVE-2005-1686 2.6
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,
03-10-2018 - 21:30 20-05-2005 - 04:00
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