CVE-2014-7272

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 8, 2018
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Oct 1, 2014

Description

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).

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610
FEDORA-2014-12442vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2014-12308vendor-advisory
[oss-security] 20141006 Re: various sddm vulnerabilitiesmailing-list

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