CVE-2012-0943 (GCVE-0-2012-0943)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-05-22 23:00
Modified
2024-08-06 18:45
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1399-2Patch, Vendor Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044
security@ubuntu.comhttps://launchpadlibrarian.net/96471251/lightdm.secure-cleanup.debdiff
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1399-2Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96471251/lightdm.secure-cleanup.debdiff
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