CVE-2006-1057

Publication date 25 April 2006

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gdm 7.04 feisty
Fixed 2.18.1-0ubuntu1
6.10 edgy
Fixed 2.16.1-0ubuntu4.1
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 2.14.10-0ubuntu1.1

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