PT-2014-3992 · Canonical · Lightdm Gtk+ Greeter
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Publicado
2014-01-23
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Atualizado
2018-10-30
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CVE-2014-0979
CVSS v2.0
2.1
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| Vetor | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
LightDM GTK+ Greeter versions prior to 1.7.1
Description
The issue arises from the
start authentication function in lightdm-gtk-greeter.c, which fails to handle the return value from the lightdm greeter get authentication user function correctly. This allows local users to cause a denial of service, specifically a NULL pointer dereference, by providing an empty username.Recommendations
For versions prior to 1.7.1, update to version 1.7.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider validating user input to prevent empty usernames from being processed by the
start authentication function.Correção
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Produtos afetados
Lightdm Gtk+ Greeter