vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-3100: kinit -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 13, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

kinit in KDE Frameworks before 5.23.0 uses weak permissions (644) for /tmp/xauth-xxx-_y, which allows local users to obtain X11 cookies of other users and consequently capture keystrokes and possibly gain privileges by reading the file.

Solution

debian-upgrade-kinit
Title
NEW

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