CVE-2015-0856 — Vulnetix

CVE-2015-0856 REJECTED

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.

EPSS 0.17% · 37.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.17%

37.6th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	sddm	0, 0.11.0-0ubuntu11, 0.13.0-1ubuntu1

Exploit Intelligence

77099 (circl)
FEDORA-2015-9f996ea146 (circl)
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-Announcement (circl)
[oss-security] 20151014 CVE-2015-0856: sddm does not prevent access to the KDE crash handler (circl)
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86 (circl)

Timeline

Nov 24, 2015 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
May 17, 2022 CVE Updated
May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0856 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0856 third-party-advisory

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