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TITLE:
GConf Temporary Directory Local Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23452

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23452/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
GConf 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/12953/

DESCRIPTION:
Michael Meeks has reported a security issue in GConf, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The security issue is caused due to GConf not using a unique name to
create a temporary directory to store certain information. This can
be exploited to stop a user from using GConf by creating the
corresponding directory before the user launches GConf for the first
time.

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to trusted people only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Michael Meeks.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141138
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167030

OTHER REFERENCES:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219279

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