Use After Free Affecting gdm-pam-extensions-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GDMPAMEXTENSIONSDEVEL-1378877
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Aug 2018

Introduced: 13 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-14424  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 gdm-pam-extensions-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gdm-pam-extensions-devel package and not the gdm-pam-extensions-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The daemon in GDM through 3.29.1 does not properly unexport display objects from its D-Bus interface when they are destroyed, which allows a local attacker to trigger a use-after-free via a specially crafted sequence of D-Bus method calls, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution.