CVE-2006-5397

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-10-18
Bugzilla:
213280: CVE-2006-5397 libX11 file descriptor leak

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The Xinput module (modules/im/ximcp/imLcIm.c) in X.Org libX11 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 opens a file for reading twice using the same file descriptor, which causes a file descriptor leak that allows local users to read files specified by the XCOMPOSEFILE environment variable via the duplicate file descriptor.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5397 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of libX11 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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

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