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CVE-2006-1057

Date: April 24, 2006

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.

Severity Score

4.9

Related Resources (14)

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1057

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083

Url: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-1057

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-1057

Severity Score

4.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Race Conditions

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	3.7
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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