GSD-2017-2625

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It was discovered that libXdmcp before 1.1.2 including used weak entropy to generate session keys. On a multi-user system using xdmcp, a local attacker could potentially use information available from the process list to brute force the key, allowing them to hijack other users' sessions.
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CVE-2017-2625
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      "publishedDate": "2018-07-27T18:29Z"
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