National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5214

Overview

Race condition in the Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060225, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a user's Xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read Xsession errors files of other users.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

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: http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 102652

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897

Hyperlink:https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897

External Source: BID

Name: 20400

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-3962

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3962

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017015

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22439

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22439

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22323

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22323

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-364-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22992

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22992

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22469

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22469

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1760

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1760

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1760