CVE-2015-0856 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in SDDM versions prior to 0.13.0, affecting Fedora and SDDM Project products. An attacker can exploit this by crashing the greeter using specific themes, such as plasma-workspace breeze, due to improper disabling of the KDE crash handler. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), indicating low attack complexity and local access required, with potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 0.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sddm_project:sddm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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