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CVE-2015-3164

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-07-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The authentication setup in XWayland 1.16.x and 1.17.x before 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.

Affected products

• Opensuse: 13.2
• xorg-x11-server: 1.16.0, 1.16.1, 1.16.1.901, 1.16.2, 1.16.2.901, 1.16.3 (+1)
• X.Org xorg-server: 1.16.4, 1.16.99.901, 1.16.99.902, 1.17.1

References

• http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/022548.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00044.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75535
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-64
• http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/022548.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00044.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75535
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-64

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