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UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0979 (CVE-2014-0979)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2014-01-23 01:55 – Updated: 2025-07-16 04:50 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-07-18

Details

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0979	REPORT
	https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+b…	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857303	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0979	REPORT

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-23 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:34

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

9 references

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http://secunia.com/advisories/56211	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+b…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/56423	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Date Public

2014-01-06 00:00

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