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| author | kwm <kwm@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-03-29 21:38:24 +0800 |
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| committer | kwm <kwm@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-03-29 21:38:24 +0800 |
| commit | 7a8c2e6e3ce4244834314cc92011e2831687d1b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 48f393ae856879bf74c7db3b1d86472f2793ecca /security | |
| parent | f749a30248068d9d3e7682cfb572e963cb046e5e (diff) | |
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Document gdm privilege escalation vulnerability
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diff --git a/security/vuxml/vuln.xml b/security/vuxml/vuln.xml index b2dcb9b45a64..ac1ac44d446b 100644 --- a/security/vuxml/vuln.xml +++ b/security/vuxml/vuln.xml @@ -34,6 +34,38 @@ Note: Please add new entries to the beginning of this file. --> <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1"> + <vuln vid="c6fbd447-59ed-11e0-8d04-0015f2db7bde"> + <topic>gdm -- privilege escalation vulnerability</topic> + <affects> + <package> + <name>gdm</name> + <range><lt>2.30.5_2</lt></range> + </package> + </affects> + <description> + <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <p>Sebastian Krahmer reports:</p> + <blockquote cite="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2011-March/msg00008.html"> + <p>It was discovered that the GNOME Display Manager (gdm) cleared the cache + directory, which is owned by an unprivileged user, with the privileges of the + root user. A race condition exists in gdm where a local user could take + advantage of this by writing to the cache directory between ending the session + and the signal to clean up the session, which could lead to the execution of + arbitrary code as the root user. + </blockquote> + </body> + </description> + <references> + <cvename>CVE-2011-0727</cvename> + <url>http://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2011-March/msg00008.html</url> + <url>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688323</url> + </references> + <dates> + <discovery>2011-03-28</discovery> + <entry>2011-03-29</entry> + </dates> + </vuln> + <vuln vid="fe853666-56ce-11e0-9668-001fd0d616cf"> <topic>php -- ZipArchive segfault with FL_UNCHANGED on empty archive</topic> <affects> |