CVE-2005-0579 Information

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.

Reference

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/2005-February/000734.html http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story42495.html