CVE-2006-5215

Severity

26%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

81%

This vulnerability is addressed in the following product updates: X.org, xdm, 2006-03-17 NetBSD, NetBSD, Current 2006-02-12 Sun, Solaris, 10 2006-10-06

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.

This vulnerability is addressed in the following product updates: X.org, xdm, 2006-03-17 NetBSD, NetBSD, Current 2006-02-12 Sun, Solaris, 10 2006-10-06

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-10-10 04:06:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:26:00

Affected Software

NetBSD 1.0

1.0

NetBSD 1.1

1.1

NetBSD 1.2

1.2

NetBSD 1.2.1

1.2.1

NetBSD 1.3

1.3

NetBSD 1.3.1

1.3.1

NetBSD 1.3.2

1.3.2

NetBSD 1.3.3

1.3.3

NetBSD 1.4

1.4

NetBSD 1.4.1

1.4.1

NetBSD 1.4.2

1.4.2

NetBSD 1.4.3

1.4.3

NetBSD 1.5

1.5

NetBSD 1.5.1

1.5.1

NetBSD 1.5.2

1.5.2

NetBSD 1.5.3

1.5.3

NetBSD 1.6

1.6

NetBSD 1.6 Beta

1.6

NetBSD 1.6.1

1.6.1

NetBSD 1.6.2

1.6.2

NetBSD 2.0

2.0

NetBSD 2.0.1

2.0.1

NetBSD 2.0.2

2.0.2

NetBSD 2.0.3

2.0.3

NetBSD 2.1

2.1

NetBSD 3.0

3.0

NetBSD 3.99.15

3.99.15

NetBSD 4.0

4.0

NetBSD

Sun SunOS (Solaris 8) 5.8

5.8

Sun SunOS (Solaris 9) 5.9

5.9

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