3.6
CWE
264
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2015-3164

First published: Wed Jul 01 2015(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
openSUSE openSUSE=13.2
X.org Xorg-server=1.16.0
X.org Xorg-server=1.16.1
X.org Xorg-server=1.16.1.901
X.org Xorg-server=1.16.2
X.org Xorg-server=1.16.2.901
X.org Xorg-server=1.16.3
X.org Xorg-server=1.16.4
X.org Xorg-server=1.16.99.901
X.org Xorg-server=1.16.99.902
X.org Xorg-server=1.17.0
X.org Xorg-server=1.17.1

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