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CVE-2006-5214

CVE information

Published

17 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
1.2/10
Exploit Score
1.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:3.99.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:10.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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