CVE-2014-0979 (GCVE-0-2014-0979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-23 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:34
VLAI
Summary
The start_authentication function in lightdm-gtk-greeter.c in LightDM GTK+ Greeter before 1.7.1 does not properly handle the return value from the lightdm_greeter_get_authentication_user function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via an empty username.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://secunia.com/advisories/56211 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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Date Public
2014-01-06 00:00
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  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.