CVE-2006-1057 Information

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.

Reference

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10092 https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.html