CVE-2006-1057

LowCVSS 3.7/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 3.7/10AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Apr 25, 2006
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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