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CVE-2012-0943

LowPublished

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...

Published: May 22, 2014
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Assigning CNA: canonical
Evidence observed: Mar 13, 2012

Primary CVSS

2.1/ 10Low

nvd · CVSS 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS probability estimate

0.8%

Low · next 30 days

Percentile: 53.4%
Model date: Sep 21, 2026

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Summary

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.

Sources

LightDM 1.0.6 - Arbitrary File DeletionExploit
Ryan Lortie · linux · Mar 13, 2012

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