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Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04 LTS, 10.10 GDM Elevation of Privileges Advisory

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Calendar Grey March 30, 2011
Scroller Ubuntu Esm H88
Versions 9.10, 10.04 LTS, and 10.10 of Ubuntu encounter a critical gdm vulnerability that could allow unauthorized root access.
Sebastian Krahmer discovered that GDM (GNOME Display Manager) did notproperly drop privileges when handling the cache directories usedto store users' dmrc and face icon files

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