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Re: CVE Request: lightdm


From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:07:19 -0700

On 03/05/2012 05:54 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
Could we please get a CVE assigned to the following issue:

lightdm leaks file descriptors to child processes. A local attacker can use this to bypass
intended permissions and write to the log file, cause a denial of service, or possibly
have another unknown impact.

Bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/927060
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658678

Thanks,

Marc.



Please use CVE-2012-1111 for this issue.

-- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)


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