Bug 1618026 (CVE-2006-1057) - CVE-2006-1057 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2006-1057 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2006-1057
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 12:09 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 12:09:22 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 12:09:16 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:38:03 UTC 
MITRE description:

Race condition in daemon/slave.c in gdm before 2.14.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack when gdm performs chown and chgrp operations on the .ICEauthority file.
Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:27:47 UTC 
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188302

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.  More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.
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