CVE-2015-0856

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.6
Exploit probability—
ProductSddm
PublishedNov 24, 2015
First seenNov 24, 2015

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
sddm_project sddmv ≤ 0.12.0—
fedoraproject fedora22—

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