CVE-2006-1057

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.

• How can I get the fixes?
• What do statuses mean?

References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

• USN-278-1
• gdm vulnerability
• 4 May 2006

Other references

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-1057