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Re: CVE request: lightdm-gtk-greeter - local DOS due to NULL pointer dereference
From: cve-assign () mitre org
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:25:00 -0500 (EST)
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it is trivial to crash lightdm-gtk-greeter by entering an empty username due to a NULL pointer dereference. When a greeter crashes the lightdm daemon exits. This constitutes a local denial of service which can be triggered by any unprivileged attacker requiring the intervention of an administrator to restart lightdm.
Use CVE-2014-0979. - -- CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority M/S M300 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA [ PGP key available through http://cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (SunOS) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSzH5JAAoJEKllVAevmvms9wIH/A9WdJzXAHd/GFVKWdl95xKZ knswD8xFptO9IIII1M8Du/eDomM0CU3fZHzgBBxtJYfCP1WZc7c7a0RG791FpWDh VMF7DeB8Kd18J9uqzQSBnZOaEtjpJHbAM8eRDjoG/MgUAzkYixTwg4lVk41mOl/l rymq3vTVgIFBHJfwQRKgxl/MlHc0qxWqC9ahw68Xg9jTsTkU1uXBVo8o3+Gr6I6b 5F4fmtAl5c3uiX570TGj03vt8mK9NTYqwwfprin9jH+SPaQZhsBb5jUQLF+SK1qD KWGWNJiwg4OUHHOmAOcRBtA4LckXaxCXceUN196QjIJmlHPtoSjXZ/ZngTAGUOw= =x4LB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Current thread:
- CVE request: lightdm-gtk-greeter - local DOS due to NULL pointer dereference Guido Berhoerster (Jan 07)
- Re: CVE request: lightdm-gtk-greeter - local DOS due to NULL pointer dereference Yves-Alexis Perez (Jan 07)
- Re: CVE request: lightdm-gtk-greeter - local DOS due to NULL pointer dereference Daniel Kahn Gillmor (Jan 07)
- Re: CVE request: lightdm-gtk-greeter - local DOS due to NULL pointer dereference cve-assign (Jan 07)
- Re: CVE request: lightdm-gtk-greeter - local DOS due to NULL pointer dereference Yves-Alexis Perez (Jan 07)
- Re: CVE request: lightdm-gtk-greeter - local DOS due to NULL pointer dereference cve-assign (Jan 07)