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CVE-2006-5969 Details

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22961 CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23089 CVE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30452 CVE
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm.devel/2419/focus=2419 CVE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-17.xml CVE

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
NVD-CWE-OtherWeakness Not in a Standard CWE Category[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
fvwm fvwm
<= 2.5.18

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:fvwm:fvwm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-5969
NVD Published Date:
Nov 17, 2006
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2006-5969 Details - Not Deferred