vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2011-3349: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 19, 2019
Added
Aug 9, 2024
Modified
Aug 9, 2024

Description

lightdm before 0.9.6 writes in .dmrc and Xauthority files using root permissions while the files are in user controlled folders. A local user can overwrite root-owned files via a symlink, which can allow possible privilege escalation.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-liblightdm-gobject-1-0suse-upgrade-lightdmsuse-upgrade-lightdm-lang
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