CVE-2012-0943

no score yetEPSS 0.8%

debian/guest-account in Light Display Manager (lightdm) 1.0.x before 1.0.6 and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, as used in Ubuntu Linux 11.10, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-6648 has been assigned for the gdm-guest-session issue.

EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-264
Published: 2014-05-22
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

canonical:ubuntu_linux
robert_ancell:lightdm

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1399-2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96471251/lightdm.secure-cleanup.debdiff
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1399-2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044

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