CVE-2011-0727

Upstream information

CVE-2011-0727 at MITRE

Description

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) dmrc or (2) face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 679786 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SR:2011:006, published Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:00:00 +0000
• openSUSE-SU-2011:0275-1, published Fri, 1 Apr 2011 13:08:25 +0200 (CEST)

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 04:27:49 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:46:03 2022