CVE-2011-4105 Information

Description

LightDM before 1.0.6 allows local users to change ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on ~/.Xauthority.

Reference

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2011-November/000178.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/02/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/02/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/02/9 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1262-1