6.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
3.7 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
7.7%
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.
cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261
www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465
bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092
usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.html