Bug 1148659

Summary:	sddm: multiple flaws in SDDM display manager leading to privilege escalation to root
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jgrulich, kevin, rdieter
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1148660
Bug Blocks:	998542

Description Murray McAllister 2014-10-02 04:18:41 UTC

Sebastian Krahmer reported a number of flaws in the SDDM display manager that could allow a local user to escalate their privileges to root:

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=897788

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/6

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-10-02 04:19:40 UTC

Created sddm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1148660]

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-10-28 06:46:54 UTC

sddm-0.9.0-2.20141007git6a28c29b.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-10-31 02:43:25 UTC

sddm-0.9.0-2.20141007git6a28c29b.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:35:05 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.