CVE-2006-5969

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-2006-5969 · Published 17/11/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-5969 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting fvwm (fvwm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.42%, higher than 36.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
fvwm fvwm	`≤ 2.5.18`	No fix yet

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.

References

secunia.com/advisories/22961
secunia.com/advisories/23089
thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm.devel/2419/focus=2419
gentoo-portage.com/x11-wm/fvwm/ChangeLog · URL Repurposed
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-17.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30452

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