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GHSA-H2J2-9MV7-H7RV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 03:47 – Updated: 2022-05-17 03:47

Details

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.

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CVE-2015-0856 (GCVE-0-2015-0856)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-24 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:26

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

debian CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard – unranked: 2 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details

References

5 references

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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a6255…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2015-10-14 00:00

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