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CVE-2006-6698

CVE-2006-6698

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167030http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219279http://secunia.com/advisories/23452http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21762http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5148