cve-2017-2625
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-27 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 14:02
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
It was discovered that libXdmcp before 1.1.2 including used weak entropy to generate session keys. On a multi-user system using xdmcp, a local attacker could potentially use information available from the process list to brute force the key, allowing them to hijack other users' sessions.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96480Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037919Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2625Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXdmcp/commit/?id=0554324ec6bbc2071f5d1f8ad211a1643e29eb1fThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00024.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96480Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037919Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2625Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXdmcp/commit/?id=0554324ec6bbc2071f5d1f8ad211a1643e29eb1fThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00024.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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