CVE-2006-5397 (GCVE-0-2006-5397)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-11-03 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 19:48
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The Xinput module (modules/im/ximcp/imLcIm.c) in X.Org libX11 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 opens a file for reading twice using the same file descriptor, which causes a file descriptor leak that allows local users to read files specified by the XCOMPOSEFILE environment variable via the duplicate file descriptor.
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