CVE-2006-5214

Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in the Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060225, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a user's Xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read Xsession errors files of other users.

Affected products

Netbsd: 3.0, 3.99.15
Sun Solaris: 9.0, 10.0
Sunos: 5.8

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22323
http://secunia.com/advisories/22439
http://secunia.com/advisories/22469
http://secunia.com/advisories/22992
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897

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