CVE-2006-1057

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnome
Status
Gdm
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 April 2006

Summary

Race condition in daemon/slave.c in gdm before 2.14.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack when gdm performs chown and chgrp operations on the .ICEauthority file.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260...
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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