Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kinit  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-KINIT-621678
  • published13 Jul 2016
  • disclosed13 Jul 2016

Introduced: 13 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-3100  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kinit package and not the kinit package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.