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CVE-2006-1057
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…
Low3.7EPSS 0.28%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.7 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 80% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.7.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- gdm-slavec-symlink(26092) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1465 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:083 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- DSA-1040 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 17635 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2007:0286 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10092 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- FEDORA-2006-338 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-278-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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