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CVE-2006-1057

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

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Summary

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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Affected versions

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    Version range not reported

References 11

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com

bugzilla.redhat.com

cvs.gnome.org

vupen.com

mandriva.com

debian.org

securityfocus.com

redhat.com

oval.cisecurity.org

usn.ubuntu.com