CVE-2006-1057

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-1057
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-04-25 01:02:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-03 21:36:00 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

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Gdm 2.14 All All All
Application Gnome Gdm 2.14 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GNOME Foundation GDM .ICEauthority Improper File Permissions Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1040-1 gdm DEBIAN www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
188303 – CVE-2006-1057 GDM file permissions race condition CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
USN-278-1: gdm vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: gdm-2.14.1-1.fc5.2 FEDORA www.redhat.com Patch
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c CONFIRM cvs.gnome.org
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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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