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USN-1399-2: Light Display Manager vulnerability

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USN-1399-2: Light Display Manager vulnerability

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

03/13/2012

Created

07/25/2018

Added

05/06/2013

Modified

07/09/2020

Description

debian/guest-account in Light Display Manager (lightdm) 1.0.x before 1.0.6 and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, as used in Ubuntu Linux 11.10, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-6648 has been assigned for the gdm-guest-session issue.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-upgrade-lightdm

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2012-0943
CVE - 2012-0943
CVE - 2012-6648
USN-1399-2

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