CVE-2013-1940

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Per http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1803-1/ "A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"

X.Org X server before 1.13.4 and 1.4.x before 1.14.1 does not properly restrict access to input events when adding a new hot-plug device, which might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by reading passwords from a tty.

Per http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1803-1/ "A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

Canonical Ubuntu Linux

First reported 12 years ago

2013-05-13 23:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2013-06-21 03:17:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.04

11.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.10

11.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.10

12.10

References

FEDORA-2013-5928

FEDORA-2013-5883

openSUSE-SU-2013:0878

DSA-2661

[oss-security] 20130418 Xorg-x11-server: Information disclosure due enabling events from hot-plug devices despite input from the device being momentarily disabled

USN-1803-1

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63353

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