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CVE-2011-0727

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2011-03-29	gdm -- privilege escalation vulnerability

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CVE-2011-0727 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2011-0727
Phase	Assigned(20110201)

Description

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) dmrc or (2) face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/.

References

Source	Reference
MLIST	[gdm-list] 20110328 GDM 2.32.1 released
CONFIRM	http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.32/gdm-2.32.1.news
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688323
DEBIAN	DSA-2205
FEDORA	FEDORA-2011-4335
FEDORA	FEDORA-2011-4351
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2011:070
REDHAT	RHSA-2011:0395
UBUNTU	USN-1099-1
BID	47063
SECTRACK	1025264
SECUNIA	43714
SECUNIA	43854
SECUNIA	44021
VUPEN	ADV-2011-0786
VUPEN	ADV-2011-0787
VUPEN	ADV-2011-0797
VUPEN	ADV-2011-0847
VUPEN	ADV-2011-0911
XF	display-manager-priv-escalation(66377)