Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1040-1 gdm -- programming error

Date Reported:
24 Apr 2006
Affected Packages:
gdm
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 17635.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-1057.
More information:

A vulnerability has been identified in gdm, a display manager for X, that could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by exploiting a race condition in the handling of the .ICEauthority file.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.0.8-1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed in version 2.14.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gdm package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.