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GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 28, 2023

Package

No package listedSuggest a package

Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 10, 2013
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Last updated Jan 28, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2013-4169

GHSA ID

GHSA-j642-2qgg-v4wq

Source code

No known source code

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