CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1940
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-05-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
X.Org X server before 1.13.4 and 1.4.x before 1.14.1 does not properly restrict access to input events when adding a new hot-plug device, which might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by reading passwords from a tty.
Affected configurations
• x x.org-xserver (<= 1.13.3)
• x x.org-xserver 1.4.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102391.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/104089.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00015.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2661 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/18/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1803-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63353 bugs.freedesktop.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102391.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/104089.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00015.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2661 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/18/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1803-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63353 bugs.freedesktop.org