Vulnerabilites related to lightdm - lightdm
CVE-2011-3349 (GCVE-0-2011-3349)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-11-19 21:42
Modified
2024-08-06 23:29
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- Other
Summary
lightdm before 0.9.6 writes in .dmrc and Xauthority files using root permissions while the files are in user controlled folders. A local user can overwrite root-owned files via a symlink, which can allow possible privilege escalation.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3349 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3349 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50506 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639151 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/lightdm/+bug/834079 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q3/393 | x_refsource_MISC |
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