PT-2015-6084 · X.Org+1 · Xwayland+1

Ray Strode · Published 2015-07-01 · Updated 2025-08-29 · CVE-2015-3164

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.6

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions XWayland versions 1.16.x through 1.17.1

Description The issue concerns the authentication setup in XWayland, which starts the server in non-authenticating mode. This allows local users to read from or send information to arbitrary X11 clients via vectors involving a UNIX socket.

Recommendations For XWayland versions 1.16.x through 1.17.1, update to version 1.17.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2031

CVE-2015-3164

MGASA-2015-0316

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10518-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Xwayland

References · 19

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0316.html · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3164 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3164 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3164 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/022548.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3164 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0316 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-3164 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3164 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00044.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-2031 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-64 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3164 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3164 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-June/002611.html · Note