CVE-2011-0727
EPSS 0.06%gdm3 - privilege escalation
Published: 3/31/2011Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) dmrc or (2) face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/gdm3from 0, < 2.30.5-9
- Debian/gdm3from 0, < 2.30.5-6squeeze2