Access Restriction Bypass Affecting xorg-server package, versions [,1.17.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XORGSERVER-2371788
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Jul 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-3164  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xorg-server to version 1.17.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. 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.

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