CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-4169

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2013-09-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-09-10
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) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.

Affected configurations

• gnome gnome display manager (<= 2.21) • gnome gnome display manager 0.7 • gnome gnome display manager 1.0 • gnome gnome display manager 2.0 • gnome gnome display manager 2.2 • gnome gnome display manager 2.13 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.1 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.2 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.3 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.4 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.5 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.6 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.7 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.8 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.9 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.10 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.11 • gnome gnome display manager 2.14.12 • gnome gnome display manager 2.15 • gnome gnome display manager 2.16 • gnome gnome display manager 2.16.1 • gnome gnome display manager 2.16.2 • gnome gnome display manager 2.17 • gnome gnome display manager 2.18 • gnome gnome display manager 2.18.1 • gnome gnome display manager 2.18.2 • gnome gnome display manager 2.18.3 • gnome gnome display manager 2.19 • gnome gnome display manager 2.19.1 • gnome gnome display manager 2.19.2 • gnome gnome display manager 2.19.3 • gnome gnome display manager 2.19.4 • gnome gnome display manager 2.20.0 • gnome gnome display manager 2.20.1 • gnome gnome display manager 2.20.2 • gnome gnome display manager 2.20.3 • gnome gnome display manager 2.20.4 • gnome gnome display manager 2.20.5 • gnome gnome display manager 2.20.6 • gnome gnome display manager 2.20.7 • gnome gnome display manager 2.20.8 • gnome gnome display manager 2.20.9 • gnome gnome display manager 2.20.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References