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CVE-2013-4169

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: 2013-09-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.

Affected products

• Gnome Display Manager: through 2.21; 0.7, 1.0, 2.0, 2.2, 2.13, 2.14 (+37)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1213.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54661
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=988498
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1213.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54661
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=988498

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