# CVE-2006-5969: CRLF injection vulnerability in the evalFolderLine function in fvwm 2.5.18 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2006-11-17 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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

- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30452
- 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

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