CVE-2013-4169

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnome
Status
Gnome Display Manager
Vendor
CVE Published:
10 September 2013

Summary

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=988498
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http://secunia.com/advisories/54661
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1213.html
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Timeline

  • Vulnerability Reserved

  • Vulnerability published

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