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low 3.7

CVE-2006-1057 json

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 an…

published 2006-04-25 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-1061

cvss
3.7
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • gdm RHEL 4 1:2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.15

red hat advisories RHSA-2007:0286

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-1057 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 gdm 2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 gdm 2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 gdm 2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 gdm 2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.15
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0286

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Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.7 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

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