Vulnerability in Lightdm Gtk\+ Greeter Project
CVE-2014-0979
The start_authentication function in lightdm-gtk-greeter.c in LightDM GTK+ Greeter before 1.7.1 does not properly handle the return value from the lightdm_greeter_get_authentication_user function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via an empty username.
EPSS: 0.004 (33.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Lightdm_gtk\+_greeter_project Lightdm_gtk\+_greeter — versions 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3
- Opensuse — versions 12.2, 12.3, 13.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)