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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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

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-03-08T20:29:00.300

Modified: 2018-03-27T23:50:43.917

Link: CVE-2014-7272

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