CVEs-PoC/2014/CVE-2014-7272.md

### [CVE-2014-7272](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7272)
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### Description

Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) before 0.10.0 allows local users to gain root privileges because code running as root performs write operations within a user home directory, and this user may have created links in advance (exploitation requires the user to win a race condition in the ~/.Xauthority chown case, but not other cases).

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280

#### Github
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