Race condition in daemon/slave.c in gdm before 2.14.1... · CVE-2006-1057 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Race condition in daemon/slave.c in gdm before 2.14.1...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Apr 25, 2006

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022

Last updated Jan 31, 2023