Executive Summary

Summary
Title GDM vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3737-1 First vendor Publication 2018-08-13
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-08-13
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary:

GDM could be made to crash or run programs as the administrator.

Software Description: - gdm3: GNOME Display Manager

Details:

A use-after-free was discovered in GDM. A local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service, or potentially execute arbitrary code as the administrator.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
gdm3 3.28.2-0ubuntu1.4

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3737-1
CVE-2018-14424

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/3.28.2-0ubuntu1.4

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3737-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-416 Use After Free

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 61

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-6740c38cf4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-06 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1494.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4270.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2018-10-19 00:22:06
  • Multiple Updates
2018-08-15 00:21:46
  • Multiple Updates
2018-08-13 21:19:19
  • First insertion