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slim -- local disclosure of X authority magic cookie

Description:

Secunia reports:

A security issue has been reported in SLiM, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to the application generating the X authority file by passing the X authority cookie via the command line to "xauth". This can be exploited to disclose the X authority cookie by consulting the process list and e.g. gain access the user's display.

References:

Affects:

portaudit: slim -- local disclosure of X authority magic cookie

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>