CVE-2006-1057 | BDVDB-2026-16481 Detail
Description#
Race 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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303
- http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.