CVE-2012-0943

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-05-22 23:55:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-05-30 00:19:00

Affected Software

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.0.0

1.0.0

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.0.1

1.0.1

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.0.2

1.0.2

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.0.3

1.0.3

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.0.4

1.0.4

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.0.5

1.0.5

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.1.0

1.1.0

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.1.1

1.1.1

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.1.2

1.1.2

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.1.3

1.1.3

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.1.4

1.1.4

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.1.5

1.1.5

Robert Ancell LightDM (Light Display Manager) 1.1.6

1.1.6

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.10

11.10

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