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Debian: CVE-2018-14424: gdm3 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 13, 2018
Added
Aug 14, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The daemon in GDM through 3.29.1 does not properly unexport display objects from its D-Bus interface when they are destroyed, which allows a local attacker to trigger a use-after-free via a specially crafted sequence of D-Bus method calls, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution.

Solution

debian-upgrade-gdm3
Title
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