Vulnerability CVE-2006-1057


Published: 2006-04-24   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-362

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.7/10
6.4/10
1.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Gnome -> GDM 

 References:
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040
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/2006/1465
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.html

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