Vulnerability in Robert Ancell Lightdm
CVE-2012-0943
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.
EPSS: 0.008 (51.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Robert_ancell Lightdm — versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 11.10
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_MISC)