CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6648
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-05-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• gdm-guest-session project gdm-guest-session (<= 0.24)
• gdm-guest-session project gdm-guest-session 0.20
• gdm-guest-session project gdm-guest-session 0.21
• gdm-guest-session project gdm-guest-session 0.22
• gdm-guest-session project gdm-guest-session 0.23
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.04
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1399-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96474113/gdm-guest-session.secure-cleanup.debdiff launchpadlibrarian.net
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1399-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96474113/gdm-guest-session.secure-cleanup.debdiff launchpadlibrarian.net