Unscored CVE-2005-0579 EUVD-2005-0580GHSA-qx6r-cp2c-5gr3

nxagent in FreeNX before 0.2.8 does not properly handle when the XAUTHORITY environment variable is not set, which allows local users to ac…

Published Feb 27, 2005 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

nxagent in FreeNX before 0.2.8 does not properly handle when the XAUTHORITY environment variable is not set, which allows local users to access the X server without X authentication.

References

[FreeNX-kNX] 20050217 Security: Serious bug in authority handling found and fixed mailing-list
SUSE-SR:2005:006 vendor-advisory