Vulnerability in Sddm Project
CVE-2015-0856
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.
EPSS: 0.004 (34.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Sddm_project Sddm
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 22
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@debian.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- security@debian.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA, Third Party Advisory)
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- security@debian.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)