CVE-2006-6698
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-12-22 18:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:34
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
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