CVE-2015-0856

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 24, 2015
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jan 7, 2015

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

77099vdb-entry
FEDORA-2015-9f996ea146vendor-advisory
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-Announcement
[oss-security] 20151014 CVE-2015-0856: sddm does not prevent access to the KDE crash handlermailing-list
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86

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