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GConf Temporary Directory Creation Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Bug 141138 â?? gconf can't cope with UID change ... (Michael Meeks)
  
• Bug 167030 â?? /tmp not cleaned up, which causes bad results if user's UID changes (olaf cbk poznan pl)
  
• Bugzilla Bug 219279: CVE-2006-6698 GConfd uses non-unique directory name in /tmp (redhat)
  
• GConf Homepage (GNOME)