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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-0856 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 2.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  4.6 MEDIUM
Vector:  (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.html Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86 Vendor Advisory 
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86 Vendor Advisory 
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-Announcement Vendor Advisory 
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-Announcement Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s)

Configuration 2 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:sddm_project:sddm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s) 		Up to (including)
0.12.0

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-0856
NVD Published Date:
11/24/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Debian GNU/Linux