CVE-2005-2958

HIGH 7.5CVE-2005-2958 · Published 25/10/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-2958 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting libgda2 (gnome).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.6%, higher than 89.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libgda2 gnome	`≤ 1.2.1`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2 (libgda2) 1.2.1 and earlier allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.

References

secunia.com/advisories/17323
secunia.com/advisories/17339
secunia.com/advisories/17391
secunia.com/advisories/17426
secunia.com/advisories/17500
secunia.com/advisories/17559
securitytracker.com/id
debian.org/security/2005/dsa-871 · Patch
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-01.xml
mandriva.com/security/advisories
novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_27_sr.html
redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-November/msg00013.html
securityfocus.com/bid/15200
usn.ubuntu.com/212-1

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