Vulnerability CVE-2015-3164
Published: 2015-07-01

Description:
The authentication setup in XWayland 1.16.x and 1.17.x before 1.17.2 starts the server in non-authenticating mode, which allows local users to read from or send information to arbitrary X11 clients via vectors involving a UNIX socket.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.6/10
4.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
X.org -> Xorg-server 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 

 References:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/022548.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00044.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75535
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-64
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