CVE-2016-3100 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2016-3100 at MITRE

Description

kinit in KDE Frameworks before 5.23.0 uses weak permissions (644) for /tmp/xauth-xxx-_y, which allows local users to obtain X11 cookies of other users and consequently capture keystrokes and possibly gain privileges by reading the file.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.4
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 983926 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SU-2016:2217-1, published Fri Sep 2 07:09:59 MDT 2016

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 12 SP1	`kinit >= 5.20.0-6.1` `kinit-devel >= 5.20.0-6.1` `kinit-lang >= 5.20.0-6.1`	Patchnames: 5270
openSUSE Leap 15.0	`kinit >= 5.45.0-lp150.1.1` `kinit-lang >= 5.45.0-lp150.1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.0 GA kinit-5.45.0-lp150.1.1
openSUSE Leap 15.2	`kinit >= 5.71.0-lp152.1.1` `kinit-lang >= 5.71.0-lp152.1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.2 GA kinit-5.71.0-lp152.1.1
openSUSE Leap 15.3	`kinit >= 5.76.0-bp153.1.15` `kinit-lang >= 5.76.0-bp153.1.15`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.3 GA kinit-5.76.0-bp153.1.15
openSUSE Leap 15.4	`kinit >= 5.90.0-bp154.1.48` `kinit-lang >= 5.90.0-bp154.1.48`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.4 GA kinit-5.90.0-bp154.1.48
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`kinit >= 5.29.0-1.1` `kinit-32bit >= 5.29.0-1.1` `kinit-devel >= 5.29.0-1.1` `kinit-lang >= 5.29.0-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10527

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Jun 8 17:00:09 2016
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:24:55 2025