Upstream information

CVE-2006-5969 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.6
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 220708 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  • fvwm2 >= 2.5.26-1.25
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA fvwm2-2.5.26-1.25
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
  • fvwm2 >= 2.5.26-1.25
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA fvwm2-2.5.26-1.25
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
  • fvwm2 >= 2.5.26-1.25
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA fvwm2-2.5.26-1.25
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • fvwm2 >= 2.5.26-1.25
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA fvwm2-2.5.26-1.25
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • fvwm2 >= 2.5.26-1.25
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA fvwm2-2.5.26-1.25
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA fvwm2-2.5.26-1.25
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • fvwm2 >= 2.6.9-2.11
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10773

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 fvwm2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 fvwm2 Analysis

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:17:26 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Apr 21 11:12:55 2025