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CVE-2006-5397

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2006-11-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The Xinput module (modules/im/ximcp/imLcIm.c) in X.Org libX11 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 opens a file for reading twice using the same file descriptor, which causes a file descriptor leak that allows local users to read files specified by the XCOMPOSEFILE environment variable via the duplicate file descriptor.

Affected Platforms

X.Org Libx11

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References