Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2014-0979 First vendor Publication 2014-01-22
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2018-10-30

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:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0979

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 13
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-41.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-1647.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-1648.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64679
CONFIRM https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+bug/1266449
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857303
FEDORA http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/12811...
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/12815...
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/15
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/56211
http://secunia.com/advisories/56423
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00048.html

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Date Informations
2021-05-04 12:29:47
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2021-04-22 01:35:58
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2020-05-23 00:39:44
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2018-10-31 00:20:36
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2018-01-26 12:05:19
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2016-04-27 00:11:04
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2014-06-14 13:36:59
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2014-02-21 13:23:33
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2014-02-17 11:25:09
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2014-01-23 21:21:48
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2014-01-23 13:19:25
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