FKIE_CVE-2006-5214

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-10-10 04:06 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:30
Severity
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/22323
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/22439
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/22469
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/22992
cve@mitre.orghttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017015
cve@mitre.orghttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1760
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22323
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22439
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22469
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22992
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1760
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
netbsd netbsd 3.0
netbsd netbsd 3.99.15
sun solaris 9.0
sun solaris 10.0
sun sunos 5.8
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