MGASA-2014-0504

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    MGASA-2014-0504

    Published: 3 Dec 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated sddm packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Sddm may in some cases allow unauthenticated logins as the sddm user (CVE-2014-7271). Sddm is vulnerable to a race condition in XAUTHORITY file generation (CVE-2014-7272). Sddm has been updated to version 0.10.0, fixing these issues and several other bugs, and adding new functionality. libxcb packages have been updated to work with sddm.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0504.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14238, https://github.com/sddm/sddm/releases/tag/v0.10.0, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: sddm

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/sddm?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.10.0-1.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High