CVE-2006-5214 (GCVE-0-2006-5214)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-10-09 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:41
VLAI
Summary
Race condition in the Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060225, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a user's Xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read Xsession errors files of other users.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/22469 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/22439 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2006-02-12 00:00
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