CVE - CVE-2006-5214

CVE-ID
CVE-2006-5214	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
Race condition in the Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060225, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a user's Xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read Xsession errors files of other users.
References
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CONFIRM:http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32804 CONFIRM:https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897 CONFIRM:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm SUNALERT:102652 URL:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1 UBUNTU:USN-364-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-364-1 BID:20400 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20400 VUPEN:ADV-2006-3962 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3962 OVAL:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1760 URL:https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1760 SECTRACK:1017015 URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015 SECUNIA:22323 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/22323 SECUNIA:22439 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/22439 SECUNIA:22469 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/22469 SECUNIA:22992 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/22992
Assigning CNA
N/A
Date Entry Created
20061009	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20061009)
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Comments (Legacy)

Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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