USN-1262-1: Light Display Manager vulnerabilities
2
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
02/17/2012
07/25/2018
05/06/2013
07/09/2020
Description
LightDM before 1.0.6 allows local users to change ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on ~/.Xauthority.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-liblightdm-gobject-1-0
- ubuntu-upgrade-liblightdm-qt-1-0
- ubuntu-upgrade-lightdm
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