CVE-2011-0727

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2011-03-28
Bugzilla:
688323: CVE-2011-0727 gdm: privilege escalation vulnerability

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) dmrc or (2) face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/.

Find out more about CVE-2011-0727 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.9
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (gdm) RHSA-2011:0395 2011-03-28

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gdm Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 gdm Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team for reporting this issue.

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