CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5214

Published: Oct 10, 2006 | Modified: Oct 30, 2018
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

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

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Netbsd Netbsd 3.0 (including) 3.0 (including)
Netbsd Netbsd 3.99.15 (including) 3.99.15 (including)
Solaris Sun 9.0 (including) 9.0 (including)
Solaris Sun 10.0 (including) 10.0 (including)
Sunos Sun 5.8 (including) 5.8 (including)

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