National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5397
Original release date:11/03/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The Xinput module (modules/im/ximcp/imLcIm.c) in X.Org libX11 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 opens a file for reading twice using the same file descriptor, which causes a file descriptor leak that allows local users to read files specified by the XCOMPOSEFILE environment variable via the duplicate file descriptor.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of libX11 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8699
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4289
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22642
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: libx11-xinput-information-disclosure(29956)
External Source: BID
Name: 20845
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:199
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22749
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/lib/libX11.git;a=commit;h=686bb8b35acf6cecae80fe89b2b5853f5816ce19
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:199
