UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3100

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3100

    Published: 13 Jul 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-3100

    Summary:

    Details: kinit in KDE Frameworks before 5.23.0 uses weak permissions (644) for /tmp/xauth-xxx-_y, which allows local users to obtain X11 cookies of other users and consequently capture keystrokes and possibly gain privileges by reading the file.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3100, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358593, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363140, https://cgit.kde.org/kinit.git/commit/?id=dece8fd89979cd1a86c03bcaceef6e9221e8d8cd, https://cgit.kde.org/kinit.git/commit/?id=72f3702dbe6cf15c06dc13da2c99c864e9022a58, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3100

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kinit

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.18.0-0ubuntu1.1

    Affected versions

    5.15.0-0ubuntu1
    5.15.0-0ubuntu2

    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
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