CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-0727
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-03-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) dmrc or (2) face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/.
Affected configurations
• gnome gdm 2.0
• gnome gdm 2.2
• gnome gdm 2.3
• gnome gdm 2.4
• gnome gdm 2.5
• gnome gdm 2.6
• gnome gdm 2.8
• gnome gdm 2.13
• gnome gdm 2.14
• gnome gdm 2.15
• gnome gdm 2.16
• gnome gdm 2.17
• gnome gdm 2.18
• gnome gdm 2.19
• gnome gdm 2.20
• gnome gdm 2.21
• gnome gdm 2.22
• gnome gdm 2.23
• gnome gdm 2.24
• gnome gdm 2.25
• gnome gdm 2.26
• gnome gdm 2.27
• gnome gdm 2.28
• gnome gdm 2.29
• gnome gdm 2.30
• gnome gdm 2.31
• gnome gdm 2.32
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.32/gdm-2.32.1.news ftp.gnome.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057333.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057931.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2011-March/msg00020.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43714 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43854 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44021 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025264 securitytracker.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2205 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:070 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0395.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47063 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1099-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0786 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0787 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0797 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0847 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0911 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688323 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66377 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.32/gdm-2.32.1.news ftp.gnome.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057333.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057931.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2011-March/msg00020.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43714 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43854 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44021 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025264 securitytracker.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2205 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:070 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0395.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47063 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1099-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0786 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0787 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0797 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0847 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0911 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688323 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66377 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com