DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5214

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5214

    Published: 10 Oct 2006Last Modified: 7 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2006-5214

    Summary:

    Details: Race condition in the Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060225, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a user's Xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read Xsession errors files of other users.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-5214

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xdm

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/xdm?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:1.0.5-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High