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.
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DSA-1040-1 | New gdm packages fix local root exploit |
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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. |
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USN-278-1 | gdm vulnerability |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T16:56:15.504Z
Reserved: 2006-03-07T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-1057

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-04-25T01:02:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2006-1057


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