CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5215

Published: Oct 10, 2006 | Modified: Oct 30, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.6 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060317, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, or read another users Xsession errors file, via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xses-$USER file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xdm X.org * 1.0.3 (including)

References