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CVE-2006-1057

LOW CVSS: 3.7 Published: 2006-04-25 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Gnome Gdm

Weakness Type

CWE-362

References