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.
Published: 2006-04-25
Score: 3.7 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1040-1 New gdm packages fix local root exploit
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-1061 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-278-1 gdm vulnerability
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:56:15.504Z

Reserved: 2006-03-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-1057

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-04-25T01:02:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-1057

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2006-04-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-1057 - Bugzilla

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