CVE-2015-0856

N/A

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published11/24/2015

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

fedoraproject:fedorasddm_project:sddm

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.html(security@debian.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2(security@debian.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099(security@debian.org)

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86(security@debian.org)

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-Announcement(security@debian.org)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-Announcement(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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