CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-0856
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-11-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
daemon/Greeter.cpp in sddm before 0.13.0 does not properly disable the KDE crash handler, which allows local users to gain privileges by crashing a greeter when using certain themes, as demonstrated by the plasma-workspace breeze theme.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 22
• sddm project sddm (<= 0.12.0)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-Announcement Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-Announcement Vendor Advisory