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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2436-1 sddm -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

06 Nov 2020

Affected Packages:

sddm

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-28049.

More information:

It was discovered that there was an issue in the sddm display manager where local unprivileged users could create a connection to the X server.

• CVE-2020-28049

  An issue was discovered in SDDM before 0.19.0. It incorrectly starts the X server in a way that - for a short time period - allows local unprivileged users to create a connection to the X server without providing proper authentication. A local attacker can thus access X server display contents and, for example, intercept keystrokes or access the clipboard. This is caused by a race condition during Xauthority file creation.

For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 0.14.0-4+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your sddm packages.

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