CVE-2014-7272 | BDVDB-2026-97498 Detail
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).
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.