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USN-1398-1: LTSP Display Manager vulnerability

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USN-1398-1: LTSP Display Manager vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/12/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The default keybindings for wwm in LTSP Display Manager (ldm) 2.2.x before 2.2.7 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the KP_RETURN keybinding, which launches a terminal window.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ldm

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