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.
CVE-2012-6648 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 2 products from gdm-guest-session_project, 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.
2014-05-22T23:55:03.003
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 | gdm-guest-session_project | gdm-guest-session | ≤ 0.24 | Yes |
| Application | gdm-guest-session_project | gdm-guest-session | 0.20 | Yes |
| Application | gdm-guest-session_project | gdm-guest-session | 0.21 | Yes |
| Application | gdm-guest-session_project | gdm-guest-session | 0.22 | Yes |
| Application | gdm-guest-session_project | gdm-guest-session | 0.23 | Yes |
| Operating System | canonical | ubuntu_linux | 10.04 | Yes |
| Operating System | canonical | ubuntu_linux | 10.10 | Yes |
| Operating System | canonical | ubuntu_linux | 11.04 | Yes |
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