CVE-2015-3164 (GCVE-0-2015-3164)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-07-01 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:39
VLAI?
Summary
The authentication setup in XWayland 1.16.x and 1.17.x before 1.17.2 starts the server in non-authenticating mode, which allows local users to read from or send information to arbitrary X11 clients via vectors involving a UNIX socket.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-dev… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75535 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-64 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public ?
2015-06-10 00:00
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