A vulnerability has been identified in GNOME Display Manager (GDM), which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions. This flaw is due to a race condition in the "daemon/slave.c" file that sets insecure permissions on the ".ICEauthority" file, which could be exploited by malicious users to conduct symlink attacks.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Marcus Meissner
ChangeLog
2006-04-22 : Initial release
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