CVE catalog
CVE-2006-1057
gdm - programming error
- Severity
- Unknown
- Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.28% · Oct 25, 2026
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. security flaw 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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | gdm | 3.1 | 2.6.0.8-1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | gdm | 3.1 | 2.6.0.8-1sarge1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | gdm | 3.1 | 2.6.0.8-1sarge2 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | gdm | deb | 3.1 | 2.6.0.8-1sarge2 | Not reported | DSA-1040-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
Observed: