CVE-2006-5397

lowpriority · track · 8EPSS 0.004 · 29 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.36% (29th) EPSS
CVSS 2.1 · low
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3 products
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Who says so?
2 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

2.1
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9
v2.01.8lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-200USLLM-inferredCWE-362USLLM-inferred
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affected products (3)

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also known as (2)

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sources

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enisa_euvdnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2006-11-03modified 2026-06-16
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references (16)

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