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
- GNOME / gdm2.14 – 2.14
References
- MISChttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092
- MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303
- MISChttp://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635
- MISChttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html
- MISChttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092
- MISChttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/
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