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Mageia Linux Local Check: mgasa-2015-0429
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.6
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
8 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
Mageia Linux Local Security Checks mgasa-2015-0429
Insight
Insight
Pavel Avgustinov discovered that SDDM does not disable the KDE crash handler, and certain themes would allow shell access to the sddm user as a result in case of a crash (CVE-2015-0856). Only SDDM users using the Breeze theme from plasma-workspace are affected.
Solution
Solution
Update the affected packages to the latest available version.