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 not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

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: Sun Apr 13 11:18:11 2025