CVE-2006-5397

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5397
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-11-03 00:07:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe Xinput module (modules/im/ximcp/imLcIm.c) in X.Org libX11 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 opens a file for reading twice using the same file descriptor, which causes a file descriptor leak that allows local users to read files specified by the XCOMPOSEFILE environment variable via the duplicate file descriptor.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application X.org Libx11 1.0.2 All All All
Application X.org Libx11 1.0.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mandriva update for libx11 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail | OVH- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
cgit.freedesktop.org http git virtual host af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 gitweb.freedesktop.org
X.Org X Window Server LibX11 Xinput File Descriptor Leak Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
libX11 XCOMPOSEFILE File Descriptor Leak - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
8699 – input method module leaks fd af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.freedesktop.org Patch
cgit.freedesktop.org http git virtual host MITRE gitweb.freedesktop.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 Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of libX11 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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