Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2006-1057

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.

  • Published: Apr 25, 2006
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2006-1057
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 3.7
  • AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
gnome / gdm 2.14 2.14.x