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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303 ↗
- http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.html ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/ ↗