CVE-2005-1686: Gnome Gedit

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in gedit 2.10.2 may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a bin file with format string specifiers in the filename. NOTE: while this issue is triggered on the command line by the gedit user, it has been reported that web browsers and email clients could be configured to provide a file name as an argument to gedit, so there is a valid attack that crosses security boundaries.

Affected products

• Gnome Gedit: version 2.10.2 only

Published 2005-05-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.