CVE-2014-7272 (GCVE-0-2014-7272)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-08 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 12:47
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Summary
Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) before 0.10.0 allows local users to gain root privileges because code running as root performs write operations within a user home directory, and this user may have created links in advance (exploitation requires the user to win a race condition in the ~/.Xauthority chown case, but not other cases).
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