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CVE-2006-5214

Published: Oct 10, 2006 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
1.2 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5214
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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 users Xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read Xsession errors files of other users.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
NetbsdNetbsd3.0 (including)3.0 (including)
NetbsdNetbsd3.99.15 (including)3.99.15 (including)
SolarisSun9.0 (including)9.0 (including)
SolarisSun10.0 (including)10.0 (including)
SunosSun5.8 (including)5.8 (including)
XinitUbuntudapper*
XinitUbuntuedgy*
XinitUbuntufeisty*
XorgUbuntudapper*
XorgUbuntudevel*
XorgUbuntuedgy*
XorgUbuntufeisty*

References

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