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.
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