Vulnerability CVE-2016-3100
Published: 2016-07-13

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.

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Opensuse -> LEAP 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> LEAP 
Novell -> Opensuse 
KDE -> Kde frameworks 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00001.html
http://www.kde.com/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.23.0.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91769
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358593
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363140
https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kinit.git&a=commitdiff&h=72f3702dbe6cf15c06dc13da2c99c864e9022a58
https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kinit.git&a=commitdiff&h=dece8fd89979cd1a86c03bcaceef6e9221e8d8cd
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20160621-1.txt
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