CVE-2006-5215

Description

From CVE.org

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 user's Xsession errors file, via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xses-$USER file.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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