Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package lightdm  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1210-LIGHTDM-635759
  • published2 Feb 2014
  • disclosed2 Feb 2014

Introduced: 2 Feb 2014

CVE-2013-4331  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lightdm package and not the lightdm package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Light Display Manager (aka LightDM) 1.4.x before 1.4.3, 1.6.x before 1.6.2, and 1.7.x before 1.7.14 uses 0664 permissions for the temporary .Xauthority file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file.