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Re: Re: [LightDM] Version 1.0.6 released


From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:40:32 -0600

On 11/02/2011 10:31 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On mer., 2011-11-02 at 10:16 -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
On 11/02/2011 09:54 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On mer., 2011-11-02 at 11:42 -0400, Robert Ancell wrote:
Fixes a security issue where using ~/.Xauthority as a symlink would
cause LightDM to set the destination of the link to user ownership.
All users of 1.0.4 or 1.0.5 should upgrade immediately.

Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.6

    * Use lchown for correcting ownership of ~/.Xauthority instead of chown
Could a CVE be assigned for this?

Regards,
Can you send me the link to this announcement so I can confirm it? Thanks.

Here's the link to the mailing list mail:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2011-November/000178.html 

Regards,
Thanks, confirmed (first hand info is much better). Please use
CVE-2011-4105 for this issue.

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-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team


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