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CVE-2006-1057

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-04-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

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.

Affected products

• GNOME gdm: 2.14

References

• http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.html
• http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261

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