Vulnerability CVE-2006-5969
Published: 2006-11-17   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
CRLF injection vulnerability in the evalFolderLine function in fvwm 2.5.18 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via carriage returns in a directory name, which is not properly handled by fvwm-menu-directory, a variant of CVE-2003-1308.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
FVWM -> FVWM 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30452
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-17.xml
http://www.gentoo-portage.com/x11-wm/fvwm/ChangeLog
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm.devel/2419/focus=2419
http://secunia.com/advisories/23089
http://secunia.com/advisories/22961
Copyright 2024, cxsecurity.com

 

Back to Top