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Fedora 22: 2015:9f996ea146 Critical: sddm Access Control Issue

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Security notice for Fedora 22: sddm patch resolving permission control vulnerabilities linked to CVE-2015-0856 flaw.
sddm-0.12.0-5.fc22 - Security fix for CVE-2015-0856 ---- Refresh to latest stable upstream release, see: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/ -Release-Announcement

Summary

SDDM is a modern display manager for X11 aiming to be fast, simple and

beautiful. It uses modern technologies like QtQuick, which in turn gives the

designer the ability to create smooth, animated user interfaces.

Update Information:

sddm-0.12.0-5.fc22 - Security fix for CVE-2015-0856 ---- Refresh to latest stable upstream release, see: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/ -Release-Announcement

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1271992 - CVE-2015-0856 sddm: Access to the KDE crash handler https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271992

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update sddm' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: sddm
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 0.12.0
Release: 5.fc22
URL: https://github.com/sddm/sddm
Summary: QML based X11 desktop manager

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