SB2015070103 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Novell Opensuse
Published: July 1, 2015 Updated: August 9, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015070103
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-3164)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The authentication setup in XWayland 1.16.x and 1.17.x before 1.17.2 starts the server in non-authenticating mode, which allows local users to read from or send information to arbitrary X11 clients via vectors involving a UNIX socket.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.