Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 17, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-5969
CVE-2006-5969
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.
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References
6- www.gentoo-portage.com/x11-wm/fvwm/ChangeLognvdURL Repurposed
- secunia.com/advisories/22961nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/23089nvd
- thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm.devel/2419/focus=2419nvd
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-17.xmlnvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30452nvd
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