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).
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-03-08T20:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T12:47:32.269Z
Reserved: 2014-10-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2014-7272
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-03-08T20:29:00.300
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:16:39.353
Link: CVE-2014-7272
Redhat
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