EUVD-2009-1751

Malware in sbrugna...

CVE-2009-1756

SLiM Simple Login Manager 1.3.0 places the X authority magic cookie mcookie on the command line when invoking xauth from 1 app.cpp and 2 switchuser.cpp, which allows local users to access the X session by listing the process and its arguments...

slim -- local disclosure of X authority magic cookie

Secunia reports: A security issue has been reported in SLiM, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information. The security issue is caused due to the application generating the X authority file by passing the X authority cookie via the command line to "xauth"...