CVE-2006-5214

Low

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.

SeverityLow
CVSS1.2
Exploit probability30. percentile0.4%
ProductNetbsd
PublishedOct 10, 2006
First seenOct 10, 2006

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
netbsd netbsd3.0, 3.99.15—
sun solaris9.0, 10.0—
sun sunos5.8—

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