CVE-2006-1057

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-1057
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-04-25 01:02:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionRace 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.7 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS: 0.000580000 probability, percentile 0.179310000 (date 2026-04-20)

Problem Types: CWE-362 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Gdm 2.14 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
188303 – CVE-2006-1057 GDM file permissions race condition af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
GNOME Foundation GDM .ICEauthority Improper File Permissions Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1040-1 gdm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
USN-278-1: gdm vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 usn.ubuntu.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 cvs.gnome.org
[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: gdm-2.14.1-1.fc5.2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Patch
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-09-19Mark J CoxRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188302 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.
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