National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1057
Original release date:04/25/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/19/2006)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188302
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2006-338
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-1465
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1040
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-278-1
External Source: BID
Name: 17635
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:083
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261
External Source: XF
Name: gdm-slavec-symlink(26092)
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0286
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:083