CVE-2003-0547 (GCVE-0-2003-0547)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-08-22 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:58
VLAI
Summary
GDM before 2.4.1.6, when using the "examine session errors" feature, allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the ~/.xsession-errors file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2003-08-21 00:00
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