CVE-2006-5969 - Chainless Twig

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.

Reference

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