Vulnerability CVE-2012-6648


Published: 2014-05-22   Modified: 2014-05-23

Description:
gdm/guest-session-cleanup.sh in gdm-guest-session 0.24 and earlier, as used in Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS, 10.10, and 11.04, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2012-0943 per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-0943 is used for the guest-account issue.

Type:

CWE-264

(Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Gdm-guest-session project -> Gdm-guest-session 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1399-1
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96474113/gdm-guest-session.secure-cleanup.debdiff
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044

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