CVE-2006-5214
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2006-5214 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | mitre |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2006-10-10 04:06:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC |
| Description | Race condition in the Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060225, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a user's Xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read Xsession errors files of other users. |
Risk And Classification
Primary CVSS: v2.0 1.2 from [email protected]
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a
CVSS v2.0 Breakdown
Access Vector
LocalAccess Complexity
HighAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
PartialIntegrity
NoneAvailability
NoneAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
Vendor Declared Affected Products
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| NetBSD Problem Report #32804: there's a race condition setting log file permissions in Xsession | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.netbsd.org | Patch |
| Webmail - OVH | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.vupen.com | |
| Ubuntu update for xinit - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| usn/usn-364-1 - Ubuntu: Linux for human beings | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.ubuntu.com | |
| Repository / Oval Repository | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | oval.cisecurity.org | |
| X.Org XDM XSession Script Race Condition Vulnerability | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securityfocus.com | |
| Avaya CMS Sun Solaris X Display Manager Security Issue - Advisories - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| X.Org X11 X Display Manager "Xsession" Script Security Issue - Advisories - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| SecurityTracker.com Archives - Xdm May Let Local Users View the Error Log Files of a Target User | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | securitytracker.com | |
| 5897 – race condition on $HOME/.xsession-errors being readable | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bugs.freedesktop.org | |
| ASA-2006-250 (SUN 102606, 102636, 102640, 102648, 102651, 102652, 102655, 102657) | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | support.avaya.com | |
| Sun Solaris X Display Manager "Xsession" Script Security Issue - Advisories - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| #200413: Security Vulnerability in X Display Manager (xdm(1)) Xsession Script | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | sunsolve.sun.com | Patch |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
Vendor Comments And Credit
| Organization | Published | Contributor | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | 2007-03-14 | Mark J Cox | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch. |
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.