CVE-2006-1057

N/A Unknown

Published: April 25, 2006 Modified: April 16, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Patch

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261