CVE-2006-5214 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/22323 http://secunia.com/advisories/22439 http://secunia.com/advisories/22469 http://secunia.com/advisories/22992 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1760