CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-6698
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The GConf daemon (gconfd) in GConf 2.14.0 creates temporary files under directories with names based on the username, even when GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS is not set, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating the directories ahead of time, which prevents other users from using Gnome.
Affected configurations
• gnome gconf 2.14.0
References
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167030 Exploit
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219279 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23452 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21762 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5148 www.vupen.com
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167030 Exploit
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219279 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23452 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21762 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5148 www.vupen.com