CVE-2015-0856

MediumCVSS 4.6/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.6/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-AnnouncementVendor Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171443.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a625593fb43876f04badc4dd99799d86Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-AnnouncementVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Nov 24, 2015
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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