CVE-2006-1057: Gnome Gdm

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in daemon/slave.c in gdm before 2.14.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack when gdm performs chown and chgrp operations on the .ICEauthority file.

Affected products

• Gnome Gdm: version 2.14 only

Published 2006-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.