2.1

CVE-2014-0979

EPSS 0.08%
Published 23.01.2014 01:55:04
Last modified 11.04.2025 00:51:21
Source cve@mitre.org
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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.

Affected products Warnungen 0 Metrics 2 CWE 0 References 12

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

Opensuse ≫ Opensuse Version12.2

Opensuse ≫ Opensuse Version12.3

Opensuse ≫ Opensuse Version13.1

Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.

EPSS Metriken
Type	Source	Score	Percentile
EPSS	FIRST.org	0.08%	0.202

CVSS Metriken
Source	Base Score	Exploit Score	Impact Score	Vector string
nvd@nist.gov	2.1	3.9	2.9	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128117.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128150.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00048.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/56211

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/56423

Vendor Advisory

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/15

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64679

https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+bug/1266449

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857303

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0979

CVE Source (NVD)

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2014-0979

CVE Source (JSON)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2014-0979

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