CVE-2012-6648 (GCVE-0-2012-6648)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-22 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:36
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EPSS
VEX
Summary
gdm/guest-session-cleanup.sh in gdm-guest-session 0.24 and earlier, as used in Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS, 10.10, and 11.04, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2012-0943 per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-0943 is used for the guest-account issue.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96474113/gdm-guest… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/light… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1399-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Date Public
2012-03-13 00:00
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