CVE-2006-1057 (GCVE-0-2006-1057)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-04-25 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:56
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Summary
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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CWE
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