VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2006-1057
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.
LOW 3.7EPSS 0.27%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 3.7 LOWAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 0.27% probability · 20th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Affected
- gnome/gdm
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.htmlPatch
- http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.htmlPatch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.