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

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

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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