Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-6105

RCE

Title: Gnome Gdm RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-6105.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 15, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-6105: Format string vulnerability in the host chooser window (gdmchooser) in GNOME Foundation Display Manager (gdm) allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a hostname, which are used in an error dialog.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.17/gdm-2.17.4.news http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=453 http://secunia.com/advisories/23381 http://secunia.com/advisories/23385 http://secunia.com/advisories/23387 http://secunia.com/advisories/23409 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017320 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017383 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:231 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_29_sr.html http://www.osvdb.org/30848 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21597 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-396-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5015 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30896 http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.17/gdm-2.17.4.news http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=453 http://secunia.com/advisories/23381 http://secunia.com/advisories/23385 http://secunia.com/advisories/23387 http://secunia.com/advisories/23409 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017320 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017383 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:231 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_29_sr.html http://www.osvdb.org/30848 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21597 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-396-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5015 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30896

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-6105 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 15, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.