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mageiaGentoo FoundationMGASA-2015-0429
HistoryNov 06, 2015 - 1:46 a.m.

Updated sddm packages fixes security vulnerability

2015-11-0601:46:03
Gentoo Foundation
advisories.mageia.org
6

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

Pavel Avgustinov discovered that SDDM does not disable the KDE crash handler, and certain themes would allow shell access to the sddm user as a result in case of a crash (CVE-2015-0856). Only SDDM users using the Breeze theme from plasma-workspace are affected.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Mageia5noarchsddm< 0.11.0-1.1sddm-0.11.0-1.1.mga5

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%