CVE-2006-5214
N/A
Published: October 9, 2006 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:30 PM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsSolarisSunosNetBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (13)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htmx_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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