CVE-2006-5215 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5215
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Description: The Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060317, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, or read another user's Xsession errors file, via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xses-$USER file.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29427 SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1 ST 1017015 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA22992 OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2205 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32805

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