3.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-3164

Published: 01/07/2015 Updated: 30/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 320
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

The authentication setup in XWayland 1.16.x and 1.17.x prior to 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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x.org xorg-server 1.16.3

x.org xorg-server 1.16.4

x.org xorg-server 1.16.0

x.org xorg-server 1.16.1

x.org xorg-server 1.17.0

x.org xorg-server 1.17.1

x.org xorg-server 1.16.99.901

x.org xorg-server 1.16.99.902

x.org xorg-server 1.16.2

x.org xorg-server 1.16.1.901

x.org xorg-server 1.16.2.901

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #788410 xorg-server: CVE-2015-3164: unauthorised local client access in XWayland Package: src:xorg-server; Maintainer for src:xorg-server is Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 05:45:02 UTC Severity: i ...
The authentication setup in XWayland 116x and 117x before 1172 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 ...