CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5397
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-11-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
The Xinput module (modules/im/ximcp/imLcIm.c) in X.Org libX11 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 opens a file for reading twice using the same file descriptor, which causes a file descriptor leak that allows local users to read files specified by the XCOMPOSEFILE environment variable via the duplicate file descriptor.
Affected configurations
• x.org libx11 1.0.2
• x.org libx11 1.0.3
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-403 Exposure of File Descriptor to Unintended Control Sphere weakness
References
- http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/lib/libX11.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=686bb8b35acf6cecae80fe89b2b5853f5816ce19 gitweb.freedesktop.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22642 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22749 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:199 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20845 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4289 www.vupen.com
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8699 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29956 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/lib/libX11.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=686bb8b35acf6cecae80fe89b2b5853f5816ce19 gitweb.freedesktop.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22642 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22749 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:199 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20845 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4289 www.vupen.com
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8699 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29956 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com