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GConf Temporary Directory Local Denial of Service Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA23452  
Release Date: 2006-12-26

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:GConf 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-6698 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Michael Meeks has reported a security issue in GConf, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The security issue is caused due to GConf not using a unique name to create a temporary directory to store certain information. This can be exploited to stop a user from using GConf by creating the corresponding directory before the user launches GConf for the first time.

Solution:
Restrict access to trusted people only.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Michael Meeks.

Original Advisory:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141138
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167030

Other References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219279



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