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.
CVE-2012-0943 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 2 products from robert_ancell, from canonical organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2014, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2014-05-22T23:55:02.830
2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Deferred
CVSSv2: 2.1 (LOW)
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
3.9
2.9
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.0.0 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.0.1 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.0.2 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.0.3 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.0.4 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.0.5 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.1.0 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.1.1 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.1.2 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.1.3 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.1.4 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.1.5 | Yes |
| Application | robert_ancell | lightdm | 1.1.6 | Yes |
| Operating System | canonical | ubuntu_linux | 11.10 | Yes |
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