CVE-2006-5214

N/A Unknown
Published: October 10, 2006 Modified: April 23, 2026
View on NVD

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22323
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/22439
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/22469
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/22992
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1760
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/22323
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/22439
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/22469
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/22992
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1760
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

26 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

sun netbsd