CVE-2006-5969
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Published: November 17, 2006 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:32 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFvwm
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (6)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm.devel/2419/focus=2419x_refsource_MISCURL Repurposed
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo-portage.com/x11-wm/fvwm/ChangeLogVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-17.xmlVDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30452Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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