ubuntu · CVE-2005-1040

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Priority: medium Published: 2005-05-02 04:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:35:26 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2005-1040 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (netapplet), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

Multiple unknown vulnerabilities in netapplet in Novell Linux Desktop 9 allow local users to gain root privileges, related to "User input [being] passed to network scripts without verification."

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