CVE-2014-7272 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2014-7272?

CVE-2014-7272 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 8 Mar 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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).

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-7272?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Sddm Project Sddm.

How do I fix CVE-2014-7272?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-7272 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-7272 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7272, GHSA-2qgx-m88q-gp35.