It was discovered that libXdmcp before 1.1.2 including used weak entropy to generate session keys. On a multi-user system using xdmcp, a local attacker could potentially use information available from the process list to brute force the key, allowing them to hijack other users' sessions.
References
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96480 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037919 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865 | Third Party Advisory |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2625 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXdmcp/commit/?id=0554324ec6bbc2071f5d1f8ad211a1643e29eb1f | Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00024.html | |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03 | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-001-xorg/ | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2018-07-27T18:00:00
Updated: 2019-11-25T23:07:07
Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-2625
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-07-27T18:29:00.860
Modified: 2023-02-12T23:29:15.727
Link: CVE-2017-2625
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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