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).
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4 ↗