CVE-2006-1057

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-04-19
Bugzilla:
1618026: CVE-2006-1057 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-1057 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188302

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (gdm) RHSA-2007:0286 2007-05-01

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