Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Xsession

CVE-1999-1347 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Xsession in Red Hat Linux 6.1 and earlier can allow local users with restricted accounts to bypass execution of the .xsession file by starting kde, gnome or anotherlevel from kdm.

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