CVE-2015-0856 (GCVE-0-2015-0856)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-11-24 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 04:26
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
security@debian.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.htmlThird Party Advisory
security@debian.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@debian.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@debian.orghttps://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86Vendor Advisory
security@debian.orghttps://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-AnnouncementVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-AnnouncementVendor Advisory
Impacted products
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