Fedora Core 4: gedit Update 2.10.2 Moderate: File Format Issue

gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed specifically for

the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports

extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for

editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text

editor functions.

You'll need to have GNOME and GTK+ installed to use gEdit.

An updated gedit package that fixes a file name format string vulnerability

is now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red

Hat Security Response Team gEdit is a small text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop.

A file name format string vulnerability has been discovered in gEdit. It is

possible for an attacker to create a file with a carefully crafted name

which, when the file is opened, executes arbitrary instructions on a

victim's machine. Although it is unlikely that a user would manually open a

file with such a carefully crafted file name, a user could, for example, be

tricked into opening such a file from within an email client. The Common

Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name

CAN-2005-1686 to this issue.

Users of gEdit should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a

backported patch to correct this issue.

- Dont pass user input as format specifiers to

gtk_message_dialog_new (bug 159657).

291c49505ea82dec5340de227d1203ec SRPMS/gedit-2.10.2-4.src.rpm

93fda2f09dec2e2fc6428d50bdc7d669 ppc/gedit-2.10.2-4.ppc.rpm

6e300eda8afb5264ebed2d58a52676cd ppc/gedit-devel-2.10.2-4.ppc.rpm

1e584bd71f8a898be0307527e57f4774 ppc/debug/gedit-debuginfo-2.10.2-4.ppc.rpm

d5236c9ad6c4fecef9ff43fc388c89ba x86_64/gedit-2.10.2-4.x86_64.rpm

08e1a0e684d3a6746b4ce6451d6b2b3d x86_64/gedit-devel-2.10.2-4.x86_64.rpm

ff2961c1627c57a8390a38377525ae5b x86_64/debug/gedit-debuginfo-2.10.2-4.x86_64.rpm

4feaa7449692b5c33ab38d2e7304f236 i386/gedit-2.10.2-4.i386.rpm

be814fb7204f079767960071ca248ff7 i386/gedit-devel-2.10.2-4.i386.rpm

271dc9d8beacf6e5121d7497aa0a02c1 i386/debug/gedit-debuginfo-2.10.2-4.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

out. Sorry for the delay.

Ray Strode

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