Vulnerability CVE-2015-0856
Published: 2015-11-24

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.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Sddm project -> sddm 
Sddm project -> SDDM 
SDDM -> SDDM 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-Announcement
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