CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5215

2.6 LOW Published 2006-10-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-10-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Description

The Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060317, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, or read another user's Xsession errors file, via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xses-$USER file.

Affected configurations

• x.org xdm (<= 1.0.3) • netbsd netbsd (<= current) • netbsd netbsd 1.0 • netbsd netbsd 1.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.2 • netbsd netbsd 1.2.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.3 • netbsd netbsd 1.3.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.3.2 • netbsd netbsd 1.3.3 • netbsd netbsd 1.4 • netbsd netbsd 1.4.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.4.2 • netbsd netbsd 1.4.3 • netbsd netbsd 1.5 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.2 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.3 • netbsd netbsd 1.6 • netbsd netbsd 1.6.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.6.2 • netbsd netbsd 2.0 • netbsd netbsd 2.0.1 • netbsd netbsd 2.0.2 • netbsd netbsd 2.0.3 • netbsd netbsd 2.1 • netbsd netbsd 3.0 • netbsd netbsd 3.99.15 • netbsd netbsd 4.0 • sun solaris 8.0 • sun solaris 9.0 • sun solaris 10.0 • sun sunos 5.8 • sun sunos 5.9

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