CVE-2006-6105 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-6105 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	Single
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 226360 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2006:029, published Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:18:04 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:50 2025