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CVE-2006-5214 Details

Description

Race condition in the Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060225, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a user's Xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read Xsession errors files of other users.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5897 CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22323 CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22439 CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22469 CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22992 CVE

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
NVD-CWE-OtherWeakness Not in a Standard CWE Category[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
netbsd netbsd
3.0
3.99.15

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:3.99.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
sun solaris
9.0
10.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:10.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
sun sunos
5.8

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-5214
NVD Published Date:
Oct 10, 2006
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2006-5214 Details - Not Deferred