CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-14424
7.8 HIGH
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-08-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
The daemon in GDM through 3.29.1 does not properly unexport display objects from its D-Bus interface when they are destroyed, which allows a local attacker to trigger a use-after-free via a specially crafted sequence of D-Bus method calls, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution.
Affected configurations
• gnome gnome display manager (<= 3.29.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105179 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/issues/401 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00003.html Mailing List
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3737-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4270 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105179 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/issues/401 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00003.html Mailing List
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3737-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4270 Third Party Advisory