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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low

Status

Modified - security@ubuntu.com

Published

2014-05-22

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Lightdm (Robert Ancell)

References

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1399-2
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044
• https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96471251/lightdm.secure-cleanup.debdiff