CVE-2006-1057
N/A
Published: April 25, 2006 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:21 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGdm
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (11)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362
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