Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gdm3  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-GDM3-601529
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed10 Sept 2013

Introduced: 10 Sep 2013

CVE-2013-4169  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gdm3 package and not the gdm3 package as distributed by Debian.

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.