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CVE-2006-5215

Impact:: Low
Public Date:: 2006-02-16

Bugzilla:: 230008: CVE-2006-5215 xdm symlink attack

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5215 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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

Last Modified 2018-04-30T22:28:58+00:00

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