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Ubuntu: USN-3737-1 (CVE-2018-14424): GDM vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3737-1 (CVE-2018-14424): GDM vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/13/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/16/2018
Modified
05/03/2019

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-gdm3

References

  • USN-3737-1
  • 105179
  • DSA-4270
  • CVE-2018-14424

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