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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published: 2015-11-24T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T04:26:11.232Z

Reserved: 2015-01-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-0856

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-11-24T20:59:00.120

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:23:51.820

Link: CVE-2015-0856

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