Upstream information

CVE-2013-4169 at MITRE

Description

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.9
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 838837 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP2 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP3 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Business Critical Linux 15 SP1 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 gdm Unsupported
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 gdm Unsupported
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 gdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 gdm Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 gdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 gdm Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 gdm Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 gdm Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 gdm Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 gdm Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 gdm Unsupported
openSUSE Leap 15.3 gdm Analysis


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Sep 5 22:20:06 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Nov 14 16:32:20 2024