CVE-2006-5214
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 1.2 LOWAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.36% probability · 30th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- netbsd/netbsd · sun/solaris · sun/sunos
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22323
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22439
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22469
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22992
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1Patch
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm
- http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1760
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22323
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22439
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22469
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22992
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1Patch
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm
- http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1760
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.