CVE-2006-1057 : Race condition in daemon/slave.c in gdm before 2.14.1 allows local users to gain

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.

Published 2006-04-25 01:02:00

Updated 2018-10-03 21:36:39

Source Red Hat, Inc.

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Products affected by CVE-2006-1057

Gnome » GDM » Version: 2.14
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Matching versions

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-1057

EPSS FAQ

0.04%

Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History

~ 6 %

Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2006-1057

Base Score	Base Severity	CVSS Vector	Exploitability Score	Impact Score	Score Source	First Seen
3.7	LOW	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P	1.9	6.4	NIST
Access Vector: Local Access Complexity: High Authentication: None Confidentiality Impact: Partial Integrity Impact: Partial Availability Impact: Partial

CWE ids for CVE-2006-1057

CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Vendor statements for CVE-2006-1057

Red Hat 2006-09-19

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188302 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.

References for CVE-2006-1057