Information disclosure in Robert Ancell Lightdm
CVE-2012-1111
lightdm before 1.0.9 does not properly close file descriptors before opening a child process, which allows local users to write to the lightdm log or have other unspecified impact.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (38.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 38th percentile — 38.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Robert Ancell Lightdm — versions 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/927060 (Exploit)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00019.html (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi (Exploit)
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/566 (mailing-list, Exploit)
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/557 (mailing-list, Exploit)