CVE-2006-5215

The Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060317, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, or read another user’s Xsession errors file, via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xses-$USER file.

Date published : 2006-10-09

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32805