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CVE-2011-3153

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Date: March 6, 2014

dmrc.c in Light Display Manager (aka LightDM) before 1.1.1 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on ~/.dmrc.

Language: C

Severity Score

2.9

Related Resources (6)

Url: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/883865

Url: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lightdm-team/lightdm/trunk/revision/1299

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2011-3153

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3153

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1262-1

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-3153

Severity Score

2.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 1.1.1

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	2.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	1.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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