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USN138-1 : gedit vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Summary gedit vulnerability Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Summary : These remote packages are missing security patches : - gedit - gedit-common - gedit-dev Description : A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit. Calling the program with specially crafted file names caused a buffer overflow, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the gedit user. This becomes security relevant if e. g. your web browser is configued to open URLs in gedit. If you never open untrusted file names or URLs in gedit, this flaw does not affect you. Solution : Upgrade to : - gedit-2.10.2-0ubuntu2 (Ubuntu 5.04) - gedit-common-2.10.2-0ubuntu2 (Ubuntu 5.04) - gedit-dev-2.10.2-0ubuntu2 (Ubuntu 5.04) Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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