Upstream information

CVE-2014-7272 at MITRE

Description

Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) before 0.10.0 allows local users to gain root privileges because code running as root performs write operations within a user home directory, and this user may have created links in advance (exploitation requires the user to win a race condition in the ~/.Xauthority chown case, but not other cases).

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.2
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 897788 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Leap 15.0
  • sddm >= 0.17.0-lp150.8.1
  • sddm-branding-openSUSE >= 0.17.0-lp150.8.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Leap 15.0 GA sddm
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • sddm >= 0.14.0-2.1
  • sddm-branding-openSUSE >= 0.14.0-2.1
  • sddm-branding-upstream >= 0.14.0-2.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA sddm

Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 rpmlint Released