CVE-2006-5397

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2006-11-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

x.org libX11: 1.0.2, 1.0.3

References

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/lib/libX11.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=686bb8b35acf6cecae80fe89b2b5853f5816ce19
http://secunia.com/advisories/22642
http://secunia.com/advisories/22749
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:199
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20845
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4289
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8699
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29956
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/lib/libX11.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=686bb8b35acf6cecae80fe89b2b5853f5816ce19
http://secunia.com/advisories/22642
http://secunia.com/advisories/22749
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:199

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