CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-0579
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-02-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
nxagent in FreeNX before 0.2.8 does not properly handle when the XAUTHORITY environment variable is not set, which allows local users to access the X server without X authentication.
Affected configurations
• freenx freenx 0.2.0
• freenx freenx 0.2.1
• freenx freenx 0.2.2
• freenx freenx 0.2.3
• freenx freenx 0.2.4
• freenx freenx 0.2.5
• freenx freenx 0.2.6
• freenx freenx 0.2.7
References
- http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/2005-February/000734.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story42495.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/2005-February/000734.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story42495.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory