Vulnerability in Gnome Gdm

CVE-2003-0547

GDM before 2.4.1.6, when using the "examine session errors" feature, allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the ~/.xsession-errors file.

EPSS: 0.004 (28.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Gnome Gdm — versions 2.4.1, 2.4.1.1, 2.4.1.2
  • Redhat Kdebase — versions 2.4.0.7.13, 2.4.1.3.5
  • N/a — versions n/a

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