CVE-2006-6698 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause a denial of service in Gnome by pre-creating temporary directories used by the GConf daemon.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-6698?
CVE-2006-6698 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Dec 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The GConf daemon (gconfd) in GConf 2.14.0 creates temporary files under directories with names based on the username, even when GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS is not set, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating the directories ahead of time, which prevents other users from using Gnome.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-6698?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gnome Gconf.
How do I fix CVE-2006-6698?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-6698 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-6698 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-6698 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fmr3-c432-pg5g.