CVE-2014-0979
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 35% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- lightdm_gtk\+_greeter_project:lightdm_gtk\+_greeter
- opensuse:opensuse
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128117.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128150.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00048.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56211
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56423