CVE-2006-6698: Gnome Gconf

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The GConf daemon (gconfd) in GConf 2.14.0 creates temporary files under directories with names based on the username, even when GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS is not set, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating the directories ahead of time, which prevents other users from using Gnome.

Affected products

• Gnome Gconf: version 2.14.0 only

Published 2006-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.