CVE-2011-4028

Description

The LockServer function in os/utils.c in X.Org xserver before 1.11.2 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary lock file, which is handled differently if the file exists.

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/49579

http://secunia.com/advisories/46460

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0939.html

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2011-October/053680.html

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=6ba44b91e37622ef8c146d8f2ac92d708a18ed34

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3