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CVE-2011-0727

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-59 Link Following
Publication date:
31/03/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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/.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
6.90
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdm:2.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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