CVE-2006-5397

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

The Xinput module (modules/im/ximcp/imLcIm.c) in X.Org libX11 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 opens a file for reading twice using the same file descriptor, which causes a file descriptor leak that allows local users to read files specified by the XCOMPOSEFILE environment variable via the duplicate file descriptor.

The Xinput module (modules/im/ximcp/imLcIm.c) in X.Org libX11 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 opens a file for reading twice using the same file descriptor, which causes a file descriptor leak that allows local users to read files specified by the XCOMPOSEFILE environment variable via the duplicate file descriptor.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

x.org libX11

First reported 18 years ago

2006-11-03 00:07:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:33:00

Affected Software

x.org libX11 1.0.2

1.0.2

x.org libX11 1.0.3

1.0.3

References

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/lib/libX11.git;a=commit;h=686bb8b35acf6cecae80fe89b2b5853f5816ce19

22642

Vendor Advisory

22749

MDKSA-2006:199

20845

ADV-2006-4289

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8699

Patch

libx11-xinput-information-disclosure(29956)

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