ubuntu · CVE-2006-5397

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Priority: medium Published: 2006-11-03 00:07:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:39:52 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2006-5397 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libx11), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

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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