CVE-2006-5969

NameCVE-2006-5969
DescriptionCRLF 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs400303

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
fvwm (PTS)jessie1:2.6.5.ds-3fixed
stretch1:2.6.7-3fixed
buster, bullseye1:2.6.8-1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm1:2.7.0-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
fvwmsource(unstable)1:2.5.18-2low400303

Notes

[sarge] - fvwm <no-dsa> (Minor issue)

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