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CVE-2006-5397

Low
2.1/10

Summary

The Xinput module (modules/im/ximcp/imLcIm.c) in X.Org libX11 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 opens a file for reading twice using the same file descriptor, which causes a file descriptor leak that allows local users to read files specified by the XCOMPOSEFILE environment variable via the duplicate file descriptor.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published