KDE Plasma Workspaces: Privilege Escalation

Background KDE Plasma workspace is a widget based desktop environment designed to be fast and efficient. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in KDE Plasma Workspaces. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact KSmserver, KDE's XSMP manager,...

CVE-2024-36041

KSmserver in KDE Plasma Workspace aka plasma-workspace before 5.27.11.1 and 6.x before 6.0.5.1 allows connections via ICE based purely on the host, i.e., all local connections are accepted. This allows another user on the same machine to gain access to the session manager, e.g., use the...

USN-6843-1 plasma-workspace vulnerability

Fabian Vogt discovered that Plasma Workspace incorrectly handled connections via ICE. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to gain access to another user's session manager and execute arbitrary code...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:2173-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2017-11171

Bad reference counting in the context of accepticeconnection in gsm-xsmp-server.c in old versions of gnome-session up until version 2.29.92 allows a local attacker to establish ICE connections to gnome-session with invalid authentication data an invalid magic cookie. Each failed authentication...

CVE-2017-11171

Bad reference counting in the context of accepticeconnection in gsm-xsmp-server.c in old versions of gnome-session up until version 2.29.92 allows a local attacker to establish ICE connections to gnome-session with invalid authentication data an invalid magic cookie. Each failed authentication...