CVE-2006-1057

Low

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.

SeverityLow
CVSS3.7
Exploit probability—
ProductGnome Gdm
PublishedApr 25, 2006
First seenApr 25, 2006

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gnome gdm2.14—

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