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CVE-2006-5214

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CVE-2006-5214

Published: Oct 9, 2006

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

1017015
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
22992
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
ADV-2006-3962
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
22469
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1760
vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_OVAL
22323
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
20400
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
102652
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUNALERT
USN-364-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
22439
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA

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