DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5969

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5969

    Published: 17 Nov 2006Last Modified: 7 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2006-5969

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-5969

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: fvwm

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/fvwm?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:2.5.18-2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High