Race Condition Affecting gdm package, versions [,2.14.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GDM-2370034
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Apr 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Apr 2006

CVE-2006-1057  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gdm to version 2.14.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. Race condition in daemon/slave.c in gdm before 2.14.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack when gdm performs chown and chgrp operations on the .ICEauthority file.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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