Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package lightdm (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published19 Aug 2020
- disclosed22 May 2014
Introduced: 22 May 2014
CVE-2012-0943 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lightdm package and not the lightdm package as distributed by Debian.
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.