CVE-2014-7272

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

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).

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).

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Fedora

First reported 6 years ago

2018-03-08 20:29:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-03-27 23:50:00

Affected Software

Fedora 20

20

Fedora 21

21

References

FEDORA-2014-12308

Third Party Advisory

FEDORA-2014-12442

Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20141006 Re: various sddm vulnerabilities

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610

Issue Tracking

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280

Patch

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