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.

X11 6.6.1_x86: xdm patch.
Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jan/18/07

X11 6.6.1: xdm patch.
Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jan/18/07

X11 6.4.1_x86: xdm patch.
Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jan/26/07

X11 6.4.1 xdm patch.
Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jan/26/07

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
24410	Solaris 9 (x86) : 124831-01	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	low
24407	Solaris 9 (sparc) : 124830-01	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	low
23447	Solaris 8 (x86) : 111845-04	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	low
23335	Solaris 8 (sparc) : 111844-04	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	low

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2006-5215

medium

Tenable Plugins

low

low

low

low