Security Advisory

CVE-2014-0979

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-01-23 01:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 09:34:40

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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