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CVE-2006-1057

N/A

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A
Published4/25/2006
Last Modified4/16/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnome:gdm

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-362

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/(secalert@redhat.com)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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