UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3164
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Summary:
Details: 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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3164, http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/022548.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3164
Affected packages
Package
Name: xorg-server
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/xorg-server@2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2
Affected versions
2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9
2:1.17.2-1ubuntu10
2:1.17.3-2ubuntu1
2:1.17.3-2ubuntu2
2:1.17.3-2ubuntu3
2:1.17.3-2ubuntu4
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
