CVE-2011-0727: Gnome Gdm

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Gnome Gdm: version 2.0 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.6 only; …

Published 2011-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.