CVE-2006-5214 (GCVE-0-2006-5214)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-10-09 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:41
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
13 references
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| https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/22469 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… | vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/22323 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT |
| 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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