Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-6698 - Denial of Service vulnerability in Gnome Gconf 2.14.0
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL local
gnome
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2008-05-29 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5. |