CVE-2013-4169
medium
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9
Description
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4169
Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=988498
Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/54661
Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1213.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
Application impact
References
CWEs
CWE-59
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.