CVE-2006-5215 - Unbetrayed Main

Description

The Xsession script as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212 X.Org before 20060317 and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or read another user’s Xsession errors file via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xses-$USER file.

Reference

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32805 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5898 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102652-1 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017015 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm http://secunia.com/advisories/22992 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29427 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2205