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Mandriva Security Update Fixes GDM Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability

Title : Mandriva Security Update Fixes GDM Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-1770
CVE ID : CVE-2006-1057
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-05-11

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

Mandriva has released updated packages to address a vulnerability identified in GDM [...]

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
d252ac2b6b8e0ea6c42b97d12154e054 2006.0/RPMS/gdm-2.8.0.4-1.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
06c26efefc15238226177bcf2b557f98 2006.0/RPMS/gdm-Xnest-2.8.0.4-1.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
7061440dac40a07c55a14e2a1f673536 2006.0/SRPMS/gdm-2.8.0.4-1.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
aaa20636b30f9b8df2c9c538b7c77635 x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/gdm-2.8.0.4-1.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
ac0ab88f60162481348072b67151883a x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/gdm-Xnest-2.8.0.4-1.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
7061440dac40a07c55a14e2a1f673536 x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/gdm-2.8.0.4-1.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

ChangeLog

2006-05-11 : Initial release

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