Secunia Security Advisory - A security issue has been reported in GNOME Display Manager, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
GNOME Display Manager URI Scheme Handler Security Issue
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44797
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-06-02
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DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in GNOME Display Manager, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions
with escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to a URI scheme handler
configuration error and can be exploited to launch a default browser
in a GDM session with the privileges of the GDM user.
The security issue is reported in version 2.32.1 and prior.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.32/gdm-2.32.2.news
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