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CVE-2006-1057

Published: 25 April 2006

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.

Priority

Unknown

Status

Package Release Status
gdm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper
Released (2.14.10-0ubuntu1.1)
edgy
Released (2.16.1-0ubuntu4.1)
feisty
Released (2.18.1-0ubuntu1)
upstream Needs triage