Upstream information

CVE-2014-0979 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 2.1
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 857303 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2014:0071-1

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Jan 8 11:16:33 2014
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:07:05 2023