{ "CVE_data_meta" : { "ASSIGNER" : "cve@mitre.org", "ID" : "CVE-2014-7272", "STATE" : "PUBLIC" }, "affects" : { "vendor" : { "vendor_data" : [ { "product" : { "product_data" : [ { "product_name" : "n/a", "version" : { "version_data" : [ { "version_value" : "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name" : "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format" : "MITRE", "data_type" : "CVE", "data_version" : "4.0", "description" : { "description_data" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) before 0.10.0 allows local users to gain root privileges because code running as root performs write operations within a user home directory, and this user may have created links in advance (exploitation requires the user to win a race condition in the ~/.Xauthority chown case, but not other cases)." } ] }, "problemtype" : { "problemtype_data" : [ { "description" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references" : { "reference_data" : [ { "name" : "[oss-security] 20141006 Re: various sddm vulnerabilities", "refsource" : "MLIST", "url" : "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4" }, { "name" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610", "refsource" : "CONFIRM", "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610" }, { "name" : "https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280", "refsource" : "CONFIRM", "url" : "https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280" }, { "name" : "FEDORA-2014-12308", "refsource" : "FEDORA", "url" : "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.html" }, { "name" : "FEDORA-2014-12442", "refsource" : "FEDORA", "url" : "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.html" } ] } }