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SUSE: CVE-2017-12164: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-12164: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/20/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/20/2018
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

A flaw was discovered in gdm 3.24.1 where gdm greeter was no longer setting the ran_once boolean during autologin. If autologin was enabled for a victim, an attacker could simply select 'login as another user' to unlock their screen.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-gdm
  • suse-upgrade-gdm-devel
  • suse-upgrade-gdm-lang
  • suse-upgrade-gdm-systemd
  • suse-upgrade-gdmflexiserver
  • suse-upgrade-libgdm1
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-gdm-1_0

References

  • CVE-2017-12164

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