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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2021-7066b95c99 Moderate: SDDM Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade of SDDM to release 0.19.0 within Fedora. Patch for local privilege escalation has been implemented. Discover additional details.
Rebase SDDM to 0.19.0

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.

Rebase SDDM to 0.19.0

* Fri Jan 22 2021 Neal Gompa - 0.19.0-3

- Adjust sddm state file trigger for plasma-workspace 5.20.90-2

* Sun Jan 17 2021 Neal Gompa - 0.19.0-2

- Add fix proposed upstream to fix SHELL setting in Wayland sessions

* Tue Nov 10 2020 Neal Gompa - 0.19.0-1

- Rebase to version 0.19.0

- Refresh patch set and drop upstreamed patches

* Sun Oct 18 2020 Neal Gompa - 0.18.1-9

- Add patch to prefer Wayland sessions on F34+

- Correctly handle Plasma session filename changes on upgrade to F34+

[ 1 ] Bug #1894034 - sddm-0.19.0 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894034

[ 2 ] Bug #1894658 - CVE-2020-28049 sddm: local privilege escalation due to race condition in creation of the Xauthority file [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894658

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-7066b95c99' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 0.19.0
Release: 3.fc33
Summary: QML based X11 desktop manager

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