CVE-2013-4169 (GCVE-0-2013-4169)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-09-10 19:00
Modified
2024-09-16 19:04
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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/.
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