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CVE-2006-6105
Format string vulnerability in the host chooser window (gdmchooser) in GNOME Foundation Display Manager (gdm) allows local users to…
Medium4.3EPSS 0.41%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (15)
- 23385 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23387 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-5015 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 23409 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1017383 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1017320 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 30848 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- gdmchooser-host-chooser-format-string(30896) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 21597 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 23381 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20061214 GNOME Foundation Display Manager gdmchooser Format String Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2006:029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:231 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.17/gdm-2.17.4.news (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-396-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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